Gothic Baby Names

Finally! The moment that you've been waiting for has arrived! No, not your wedding...your pregnancy! And so it starts, you think. Your life will never be the same again. Every one of your relatives and friends calls with some tip or the other. But keeping the advice aside, what you want to do more than anything, is to find a special name for your baby. If it's unique baby names that you are thinking about, why not try goth? More and more couples these days are leaving behind the traditional names that have been passed on for centuries and are opting for Gothic baby names instead. These names do not travel the oft trodden path and tradition of baby names, but have a edge to them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't they sound really, really cool? Plus their meanings are rather atypical which adds to their cool quotient as well.

Gothic Names and Meanings

Gothic Baby Boy Names

• Amethyst ~ Purple gemstone
• Ash ~ What's left behind after a fire.
• Balor ~ One-eyed giant in Irish mythology
• Draven ~ The crow
• Funereal ~ Funeral
• Gabriel ~ Angel of death
• Gehenna ~ New Testament version of hell
• Grendel ~ Beast in Beowulf
• Griffin/Gryphon ~ Mythological beast with the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle
• Grimoire ~ Book of incantations, making medicines, summoning spirits.
• Hades ~ Greek lord of the underworld
• Hemlock ~ Poison that Plato took it to commit suicide
• Isolde ~ Tragic Irish heroine
• Israfel ~ Angel who blows the horn signaling Judgment Day
• Lucifer ~ Fallen angel, often associated with Satan
• Morte ~ French for dead
• Nephilim ~ Race of half-human giants
• Nocturne ~ Piece of music evoking night
• Oleander ~ A beautiful but poisonous flower
• Salem ~ Location of witch hunts in Massachusetts
• Samhain ~ Halloween
• Thorne ~ Sharp
• Tristan ~ Tragic Arthurian hero
• Vespers ~ Catholic morning prayers
• Vladimir ~ Alleged vampire
• Abraxas ~ A mystical word
• Acanthus ~ Thorn
• Adalricus ~ Noble Ruler
• Elisnore ~ Hamlet's castle

Gothic Baby Girl Names

• Acantha ~ Thorn
• Delora ~ H.P. Lovecraft's aunt
• Desdemona ~ Tragic Shakespearean heroine
• Diti ~ Demon mother in Hinduism
• Dolores ~ Sorrows in Spanish
• Draconia ~ Dire
• Esmerée ~ The daughter of a Welsh king who was turned into a serpent by magicians
• Eulalie ~ Figure in another poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Eurydice ~ Tragic Greek heroine
• Freya ~ Norse goddess of sex and childbirth
• Hecate ~ Greek sorceress
• Jezabel ~ Biblical adulteress
• Leila ~ Arabic for night
• Lilith ~ Legendary evil first wife of Adam
• Luna ~ Latin for moon
• Mara ~ A maleficent female wraith in Scandinavian folklore that causes nightmares
• Merula ~ Latin for blackbird
• Narcissa ~ Feminine form of Narcissus
• Nimue ~ An Arthurian sorceress
• Nin ~ Establishment of peace
• Ophelia ~Tragic Shakespearean heroine
• Orchid ~ Exotic and rare.
• Perdita ~ Latin for lost
• Raven ~ Bird often associated with death
• Sabrina ~ Goddess of the river Severn in Celtic mythology
• Sage ~ A spice
• Willow ~ Weeping tree; symbol of death

There you are, a list of Gothic baby names that you can choose from, for your child. Like they say...Do it Goth!