Dark Sounding Names
Dark sounding names have so many applications, from real names to pets to online avatars. I’ve rounded up over 200 shadowy, brooding ideas to inspire you. From gothic, witchy names to gloomy and somber, you’ll find plenty of options!
Dark-Sounding Names for Girls
These dark sounding names for girls range from magical to dreary to goth. We hope there’s some you
- Agatha
- Agira
- Agnes
- Anise
- Andromeda
- Beleth
- Belladonna
- Berwyn
- Betra
- Blair
- Dagmar
- Delyth
- Demelza
- Demetria
- Desdemona
- Draven
- Drusilla
- Dusk
- Echidna
- Elspeth
- Elvira
- Eris
- Hedwig
- Heike
- Hemlock
- Ilona
- Inge
- Isolde
- Jezebel
- Khepri
- Lamia
- Lenore
- Lilith
- Liesel
- Lucretia
- Maeve
- Malicia
- Maralith
- Medusa
- Morgana
- Moira
- Morrigan
- Morwen
- Mourn
- Myrrh
- Nadir
- Nephele
- Nerys
- Nyx
- Omen
- Onyx
- Persephone
- Portia
- Rahab
- Raven
- Rusalka
- Scylla
- Shelob
- Silitha
- Sitri
- Stheno
- Stryx
- Styx
- Sybil
- Tiamat
- Tourmaline
- Ursula
- Vesper
- Zdrada
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Dark-Sounding Names for Boys
These dark sounding boy names cover the spectrum from harsh to somber, and devilish to grim.
- Adalwolf
- Alaric
- Alcazar
- Asgeir
- Azazel
- Bademus
- Bastet
- Berengar
- Blackwell
- Blaid
- Caine
- Caspian
- Chthon
- Crowley
- Cyrus
- Damian
- Dante
- Demophon
- Derval
- Devereux
- Devon
- Dorian
- Erasmus
- Erebus
- Esker
- Fenrir
- Fergal
- Foxglove
- Gangolf
- Griffith
- Grigori
- Grimm
- Gunnar
- Gwydion
- Hastur
- Hawthorne
- Howell
- Jet
- Josephel
- Judas
- Linnorm
- Loki
- Lorian
- Lothar
- Lothric
- Lucero
- Lucian
- Malafar
- Maldwyn
- Malekith
- Malvolio
- Moloch
- Moorgate
- Mortimer
- Naberus
- Nox
- Obsidian
- Ornstein
- Osmond
- Ottokar
- Padraig
- Ragnar
- Ravin
- Samael
- Samhain
- Scorpio
- Seloth
- Shiloh
- Silas
- Soren
- Stoker
- Thibault
- Thorne
- Tybalt
- Typhon
- Udalrich
- Umber
- Vasago
- Viktor
- Welf
- Wenzel
- Wolfram
- Wolfgang
- Wulfric
- Zagred
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Names That Mean Dark for Girls
To round out our list, here are a variety of girls’ names related to darkness
- Anisha – means nightless in Sanskrit
- Asra – means “travel at night” in Arabic
- Blake – Old English for black
- Blakely – means “black meadow “
- Charna – Slavic for black
- Chausiku – means “born at night” in Swahili
- Ciara – Irish for black
- Inola – Cherokee for “black fox”
- Isra – Arabic for “night journey”
- Kara – Turkish for black
- Lamya – Arabic for dark lips
- Layla – Arabic for night
- Li – Chinese unisex name meaning black
- Lilith – Akkadian for “of the night”
- Makvala – Georgian for blackberry
- Melaina – Greek for dark
- Melanie – French form of Melaina
- Merel – Dutch for blackbird
- Miyako – Japanese for “beautiful night child”
- Nisha – Sanskrit for night
- Rajani – unisex Sanskrit name for “the dark one”
- Sable – from the black furred animal, whose name also means black
- Scathach – means shadowy in Irish, also the name of a legendary warrioress
- Senka – Serbian and Croatian for shadow
- Tuta – Quechua for night
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Boy Names That Mean Dark
These boy names mean dark and make excellent choices!
- Blake – Old English for black
- Catahecassa – Means “black hoof” in Shawnee
- Chernobog – the Slavic god of darkness, evil and grief
- Ciar – Irish for black
- Colby – means “coal-dark”
- Dougal – Scottish for dark stranger
- Douglas – Scottish for “dark river”
- Dubhan – Old Irish for “little dark one”
- Duff – Gaelic for dark
- Dunstan – Old English for dark stone
- Itzal -Basque for shadow
- Kali – Sanskrit for “the black one”
- Krishna – Sanskrit for black
- Lonan – Irish for little blackbird
- Melanthios – Greek for “dark flower”
- Moreno – Spanish or Italian for dark
- Nishant – Sanskrit for night’s end
- Orpheus – Greek for the darkness of night
- Otieno – Eastern African name meaning “born at night”
- Rajnish – Sanskrit for “lord of the night”
- Shayama – unisex Sanskrit name meaning “dark, black, blue”
- Sullivan – derived from the Irish words describing someone with dark eyes
- Zelophehad – Hebrew name that may mean ‘shadow from terror’
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Wrap up- dark sounding names
We hope you’ve enjoyed this journey through drab, gloomy, and dreary dark sounding names! Have more ideas? Please share them in the comments!
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Resource: We use behindthename.com to research the origin and meaning of these names.