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dark gothic names for girls

335 replies

northernlights0 · 08/05/2021 12:20

So far I have

Raven
Acantha
Adrienne

Thanks 😊

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Beetlewing · 08/05/2021 21:13

Annabel Lee is the ultimate gothy name isn't it? Edgar Allen Poe thought so. You could also have Marceline (the vampire queen)

Honeyroar · 08/05/2021 21:24

Severina
Lucretta
Marianne
Eve

isamonster · 08/05/2021 21:46

Desdemona
Hepzibah
Victoire
Violaine
Goneril
Regan
Perdita

ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 21:51

Yes, Annabelle Lee is the ultimate! But probably could not use the Lee so the sense would be list.

ScrollingLeaves · 08/05/2021 21:54

YorkiePanda
“Bertha (Jane Eyre/madwoman in the attic)”
That name conjures up quite the most unsettling, sad, gothic horror!

YorkiePanda · 08/05/2021 22:06

@ScrollingLeaves

YorkiePanda “Bertha (Jane Eyre/madwoman in the attic)” That name conjures up quite the most unsettling, sad, gothic horror!
Depends how you see the character!
Gullible2021 · 08/05/2021 22:33

You’ve got to be careful. I almost feel fate intentionally ends up giving the parents the most un-gothy child just to fuck up the fashion/lifestyle statement they made with the name. I know a small child named Nyx. She’s as fair, bonny, blue eyed and rosy cheeked as they come. It means “Goddess of the Night”.

Some cool names on this thread though that aren’t as difficult to live with. I actually know a Wednesday oddly enough and a Narcissa. Sorrow always makes me think of poor Tess Durbeyfield’s dead baby.

Rowena, Morgana etc are all cool. In college I briefly dated an oddball lecturer (I know, I know Hmm) with cats named Lilith and Hecate. He was a genuine sadist with an obsession for Christina Rossetti and “breath play”. I’m sure his eventual children would have had interesting names. And a huge bill for therapy.

EsmeShelby · 08/05/2021 22:37

Persephone
Melisandre
Circe
Hecate
Neva

Tillygetsit · 08/05/2021 23:06

Some beautiful names on this thread. I love Magenta...shades of Rocky Horror.

Ronnii · 08/05/2021 23:17

Letha

Runforwine · 08/05/2021 23:18

Vida
Morven
Evangeline
Daria
Elspeth
Estelle
Natasha
Nicolette
Petra
Robyn
Rain
Wilamena
Sage

caringcarer · 08/05/2021 23:32

Mortisha

Winecurestiredness · 08/05/2021 23:43

Bronte? Robyn? not gothic i guess but cool and 'alternative'...

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TempsPerdu · 09/05/2021 00:23

Not recommending this one at all, but an old university acquaintance has called her daughter Nemesis...

Inaquandry19 · 09/05/2021 00:28

Persephone - Queen of the underwold and a great name

Imissmoominmama · 09/05/2021 01:11

Cathy/Catherine.

Wuthering Heights.

mathanxiety · 09/05/2021 01:53

Beatrix
Beulah
Elfrieda
Griselda
Magdalena

Lida
Zita
Drusilla
Nissa
Tristesse/ Trista

Twyla
Jade
Wynter
Wynona
Winifred

Rue
Amethyst
Amoret
Belladonna
Vesper

Ursulina
Musette
Nirvana
Garnet
Jocasta

Clothilde
Lorna
Agatha
Heloise
Petronelle

and
Helen

mathanxiety · 09/05/2021 05:41

Vera
Regine
Sabrina
Lorelei
Ciara
Yseult
Echo
Myrna

Saltandshake82 · 09/05/2021 05:51

Celestine - beautiful
Emeralda
Valentina
Blithe or Blythe

drspouse · 09/05/2021 05:59

I know a Wednesday who dresses in rainbow colours.
Be careful, you are bound to have a Lilith who wants to wear her bright red team strip or pale pink frilly leggings every day.

DeadButDelicious · 09/05/2021 08:00

I've seen a few comments now that imply that those of us of the goth/dark persuasion must want our children to grow up the same as us and will be bitterly disappointed if they don't and that really isn't the case, at all.

My tastes run dark, so it stood to reason that my choice in names would go that way too, we chose something that was fairly uncommon, had a slightly spooky connection (not at all obvious to anyone but us to be honest) but still a perfectly nice name for a little girl and a grown woman. I was under absolutely no illusions that she may like pink and unicorns and Princesses and lo and behold she does! Just like I did when I was her age. I didn't swan out of the womb in black lace and pikes. That's not quite how it works.

I want my daughter to grow up to be herself, not a miniature version of me. I don't know any goths who've had children and given 'spookier' names, to then be disappointed when there son or daughter doesn't 'live up to it' or whatever. Liking things that kids tend to like isn't a disappointment for us.

MangosteenSoda · 09/05/2021 08:25

Ismene
Kerensa
Fairuza

Now I want to have another baby so I can goth name! Love the names on here.

Dnadoon · 09/05/2021 10:23

Nirvana

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