dark gothic names for girls

[northernlights0]

So far I have

Raven
Acantha
Adrienne

Thanks 😊

@medebourne

Why on earth would anyone want to choose a 'sinister' name for their baby?! Are you a sinister person? Do you hang out with sinister people? Do you want your child to hang out with sinister people?

Being gothy when you're a suburban teenager and want to shock your neighbours and parents is quite interesting and 'edgy' I suppose, but why put that on your baby?

You might think it's naughty and rebellious to do graveyard chic, but is that seriously what you want for your child?

This! Saved me typing it.

"Graveyard chic"

Fuschia (character name from Gormenghast trilogy)

Briony

Ishbel and Peggy feel like Scottish witchy names to me. Sybilla, Sìofra (changeling), Charmian, Margeaux, Millicent, Morgane, Beatrix. If thinking elementally - Aella and Alizeh are both wind / air names, Eseld means ice warrior, Ondine is water nymph, Tallulah is sparkling water, Aphra is dust (earth), Osha is shining (fire).

Fauna, Flora, Morticia, Wednesday.

@thenonsensepotter

This is the best name thread I've seen in ages

Please call it Voldemort

Ha!

My daughter went to school with a Jezebel, it does exist :-)

Ebony/ie
Erin/yn
Guinevere
Gaia
Robyn
Angharad
Briar
Cher

Sable means black and is used to reference mourning attire but it’s also the animal valued and farmed for its fur, much like mink, so it’s probably too associated with the wrong kind of darkness. An objectively beautiful word though.

Oh and Nightshade/Shayde or Ivy

@ShrinkingViolet9 it's an infamous HP fic

@medebourne

Why on earth would anyone want to choose a 'sinister' name for their baby?! Are you a sinister person? Do you hang out with sinister people? Do you want your child to hang out with sinister people?

Being gothy when you're a suburban teenager and want to shock your neighbours and parents is quite interesting and 'edgy' I suppose, but why put that on your baby?

You might think it's naughty and rebellious to do graveyard chic, but is that seriously what you want for your child?

Maybe OP is writing a horror story?

Anyway, if she calls the baby Elvira or Morwenna and it turns out to be fair, chubby and giggly instead of dark, solemn and intense, it won't matter!

Gorgeous names here! Makes we want to crack out my old Pennangalan boots and corset - and of course, remember - boots first THEN corset!

I came on to say Lucretia, but I see now I've been beaten to it many times over!

Lucretia
Raven
Winter
Temperance
Scarlett
Violet
Amber (depending on the kind of goth you are?)
Sybilla
Velvet
Crimson
Persephone
Hecate
Hester
Electra
Esmerelda
Antigone
Ophelia
Ismene
Phaedra
Niobe
Artemis

I laughed to see Deirdre up there, because I'm Irish and it's such a "normal" name, but of course Deirdre of the Sorrows is very evocative.

I would probably avoid names like Darkling, Gothelina (lol) etc. because while you can do your best, they're probably not going to to be a goth when they grow up. It's a miracle there are any left even now. Oh for the 90's...

@medebourne "Sinister" is your word, not the OP's.

sigh
belladona
constantine
bronte

I obviously don't know what a goth is as I am really struggling to see the dark goth element in nearly all these names.

Not the point of the thread, but I might have to go up in the attic and get my these back out to shock the children!

Medea
Lillith
Circe
Hecate
Persephone

@musingloud

I obviously don't know what a goth is as I am really struggling to see the dark goth element in nearly all these names.

I think for many of us it was/is more about the romance and tragedy. Lots of romantic/tragic literary names there, as well as characters from goth or goth-friendly books and vampires too!

Oh - I know a Bronte in real life and she is so ungothy. WASTED on her.

Loving some of these names - especially Ophelia & Wren.

Still not sure what a goth baby is though

@chuffoff

Fuschia (character name from Gormenghast trilogy)

It's "Fuchsia" (Lady Fuchsia Groan) in Titus Groan and Gormenghast.

Brona- it means sorrow or sadness in Irish
Eliza
Phaedra
Drusilla

I love this thread, nice change from the usual type of baby names

Personally, even at the grand old age of 39 I love a bit of Graveyard Chic. I'm not an old misery guts either. Nowt wrong with being a bit spooky.

It's perfectly possible to give a child a 'darker' name that fits your taste without calling them Obsidian Blackbird McNight or burdening them with something terribly cliche. We picked something that had slightly spooky connotations for us but is a perfectly nice name that plenty of little girls have.

Some of my favourite girls names are...

Rhea
Lydia
Mina (ok a bit on the nose)
Elouise (I like the damned and it's a nice name)
Eris
Phoebe (The name of the original mum in The Munsters, a subtle reference)
Rhiannon
Freya (bit like Friday, less obvious than Wednesday)

Bellatrix

Marceline (from adventure time)

Oh I love raven.

I know a baby Lilith and love that too, although before that I had only heard of it via the sitcome Frasier.

personally I adore the name Leveret. If I had a girl I would totally name her that. But that might be too cutsy baby animal for gothic.