50 Dark Fantasy Boy Names With Meanings

The fantasy genre is a place where anything in our imagination can happen as long as it feels real. Fantasy elements also occur throughout ancient religious texts. I have selected 50 fantasy boy names with their meanings included.

List Of 50 Dark Fantasy Boy Names:

Erebos

In Greek legends Erebos is the primordial dark born straight out of Chaos and is older than the gods who came after.

Daemir

Daemir is a fantasy variation of the Ottoman Turkish demir which means iron.

Aethon

Aethon is from the ancient Greek word aithōn and is symbolizing ”fiery” or ”burning.” Variants include Ethon and Aithon.

Balor

Balor (“the deadly one”) was the one-eyed king of the Fomorians in Irish mythology and his eye killed whatever it looked upon.

Abaddon

Abaddon is Hebrew for destruction, and in the Book of Revelation is the name of the angel who rules the abyss. It is pronounced as Ah-BAD-on.

Grimvael

Grim is the old Germanic word for fierce or stern, while vael is there for sound.

Caelith

Caelith comes from an Old English word for warrior. In Warhammer Caelith Fireheart was the first Dragon Mage. In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign, The Age Beyond Heroes, Caelith is a Shaman and Priest of Virelia.

Peregrin

Peregrin is meaning foreigner or foreign and comes from the Latin ”peregrinus.” Peregrin “Pippin” Took is one of Frodo Baggins’s closest friends. Pippin was the youngest of the four Hobbits in the Fellowship of the Ring.

Dravyn

Dravyn is a variation of the name Drayven and is meaning “from the dark waters or hunter. Delgon Dravyn is a character in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV.

Thanatos

Greek for death and the god who personified it.

Azrael

Azrael is the angel of death in Islamic and some Jewish traditions. The Hebrew root means “help of God.”

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Eldros

Eldros is a variant of the Spanish name Eldoris and it means ”covered with gold” or ”golden one.” It is also related to the Turkish Eldos.

Kalervo

Kalervo comes from the Finnish word kalpa (sword).

Cain

Cain is the first murderer in the Book of Genesis.

Malphas

Malphas is a demon that is ranked as a president of Hell in the Lesser Key of Solomon.

Kryven

From the Greek kryos (icy cold).

Silvael

”One who belongs to the forest.”

Umbriel

”Shadow” and is from the Latin umbra.

Fenwick

Fenwick comes from the Old English elements fenn (marsh) and wic (a dairy farm). Vernon Fenwick is a character in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There is also Fenwick, an antagonist in LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu.

Wiethorn

Wiethorn is a fantasy name that has roots in the Old German wiet (that means ”open space”) and horn (promontory).

Galahad

Galahad is one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend and the son of Lancelot du Lac and Elaine. Galahad is also an English rock band formed in 1985. Galahad means selflessness or purity.

Thorendal

Thorendal is from the Old Norse elements: thor, the God of Thunder and the son of the allfather Odin, and dahl (valley).

Nidhogg

Nidhogg is the serpent that is coiled at the base of the world tree Yggdrasil. It means ”malice-striker.”

Mallory

Old French for the unlucky or ill-fated one.

Moros

Moros is the Greek for ”fate” or ”doom.”

Haldric

Haldric is from Old Norse Hallr and is symbolizing ”boulder” or ”rock.”

Sablor

”The deepest black.”

Telvaris

Telvaris is linked with the Cornish language and is made from the elements tre (means ”homestead”) and varis (a place).

Ilvaren

Ilvaren is a variation of the Scandinavian Ivar which is from the Old Norse Ívarr.

Valdis

Valdis is of Norse and Baltic origins and is composed of the elements val (those dead in battle) and dís (female guardian angel. Valdis is a rusalka witch in the TTRPG Pathfinder.

Joren

Joren has Dutch and Scandinavian origins and comes from George and Jörgen (that means ”earth-worker” or ”farmer”). Duke Joren Jawbreaker is a character in the A Crown of Candy campaign.

Lorcan

Lorcan has roots in the Irish language and is meaning ”little fierce one.” Lord Lorcan Salvaterre is a powerful demi-Fae in the fantasy series, Throne of Glass.

Kael’thas

In WoW Kael’thas “Kael” Sunstrider is the Prince of Quel’Thalas and the son of King Anasterian. Kael’thas means ”the prince of the kingdom.”

Maldren

Maldren is a form of Malden, an Old English name dating to Medieval times. It has the Old English elements mald (earth) and ren (river).

Morven

Morven has its origins in Scottish and Irish culture and means sea gap or the big gap. In MTG (Magic: The Gathering) Morven was one of the bodyguards of the wizard Towser.

Nytra

Nytra means ”eyes.” The Principality of Nitra comprised a group of settlements located in present-day Slovakia.

Orentha

”Excellence.” Lawmaster Orentha Stonegrasp is part of the Critical Role universe.

Xavros

Xavros is a variant of the Greek Stavros that means ”cross.” The feminine versions are Stavriani and Stavroula.

Corvain

”Raven-dark”. It is from the Latin corvus and is pronounced as KOR-vayn. Corvi is a short form that I like.

Vorden

The Old Norse vörðr is the root of Vorden (”watcher” or ”guardian”).

Draegar

Draig is the Welsh word for ”dragon” so its meaning is ”something scaled and old.”

Thornel

From the Old English thorn.

Naddric

The Old Norse naðr means ”adder” or ”serpent” as such Naddric means ”cold-blooded patience.”

Holstrand

Holstrand is made from the Old Norse holt (that means ”a small forest”) and strönd (”strand” or ”beach”).

Wolfram

Wolfram is an old Germanic name that has the elements wolf and hraban (means ”raven”). In 1210 Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote the Grail romance Parzival.

Aldern

Alder is the tree that grows with its feet in water.

Nyxaris

Nyxaris comes from the Greek nyx. Nyx is the goddess of night who is depicted as driving a horse-pulled chariot.

Belial

Belial is Hebrew for ”worthlessness” or ”wickedness.”

Charon

Charon is the ferryman who rows the dead across the river of the underworld for the price of a coin.

Grimald

Grim (means ”fierce” or ”mask”) and wald (”rule”).