200 Dark Gothic Boy Names With Meanings

Goth is a subculture that started in the late 70’s both in the US and Europe. The clothing styles range from Victorian styles, death rock, and punk. Here, I hand-picked 200 dark gothic boy names with meaning included.

List Of Dark Gothic Boy Names And Their Meanings:

Requiem

Requiem has its origins in the Latin word requiem and means ”repose” or ”rest.”

Rasputin

“Crossroads,” and a mystic lured to a palace cellar and murdered.

Draven

Draven comes from the Old English word drǽfend and is symbolizing ”hunter.”

Baldur

Baldur (“prince”) dies from a dart of mistletoe.

Donn

“Brown.” Donn is an Irish god who gathers the dead.

Byron

“At the cowsheds.”

Mandrake

“Man dragon,” and a root believed to scream when pulled up.

Dunstan

Dunstan (“dark stone”) is the saint who pinched the devil’s nose with tongs.

Grimshaw

It is linked with the Old Norse Grímr (”shape-changer” or “masked person”) as well as with a hamlet in Lancashire called Grimshaw.

Severin

Severin is from the Latin sĕvērus (”austere” or “severe”). Pope Severinus passed away two months after his pontificate started.

Plague

Plague is from the Latin plaga and means “stroke” or “wound.” I find Plague to be a truly dark gothic name.

Lazarus

“God has helped.” Lazarus was a man called from his tomb after four days.

Algernon

“Mustached.”

Otieno

Otieno means “born at night” and is common in the Luo tribe that are native to western Kenya.

Lucian

”Illumination or ”light,” and has Latin origins. I like Lucian; it sounds gothic with a positive meaning.

Chernobog

“Black god.”

Legion

From Latin legio, a body of soldiers.

Yami

Darkness.

Griffin

Prince, or a winged lion with an eagle’s head.

Atreus

“Fearless.”

Ankou

Ankou (“death”) drives a creaking cart of corpses in Breton lore.

Kratos

“Strength”.

Mortimer

Still water, or “dead sea.”

Ahab

“Father’s brother.”

Dorian

Dorian is interpreted as ”child of the sea,” and it is from the Greek Dorios. It can also mean “descendant of Dorus,” which are the Dorians, an ethnic group from Greece.

Laszlo

It has Hungarian origins and is meaning “famous ruler” or “glorious ruler.” It derives from Ladislav that is a form of Vladislav. László Batthyány-Strattmann was born into an ancient Hungarian aristocratic family and was beatified by the Church in 2003.

Alaric

The etymology of Alaric is rooted in the Germanic elements Ala (”everyone’s”) and ric (ruler). The Spanish form is Alarico. Alaric I was the first king of the Visigoths.

Mordecai

Follower of Marduk. In the Bible, he is a descendant of King Saul and is mentioned in the Book of Esther. ”Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.” Esther 4

Anubis

Anubis (”to decay” or “royal child”) is the guide to the underworld in Egyptian religion and his daughter is the serpent goddess Kebechet. He is also a protector of cemeteries and graves.

Lestat

It comes from the French Lestât, which signifies status or state. Lestat de Lioncourt is a character in the novel ”Interview with the Vampire.” Lestat is portrayed as a lonesome individual.

Kronos

“Time.”

Rook

Crow, or a castle on a chessboard.

Asmodeus

From Avestan aeshma-daeva, demon of wrath.

Pyrrhus

“Flame-colored.”

Gwyn

“White.”

Vitus

“Life,” and the saint linked to a disorder called Saint Vitus’ dance.

Barabbas

“Son of the father.”

Moriarty

Moriarty (“sea warrior”) goes over Reichenbach Falls with Sherlock Holmes.

Umbriel

“Shadow.” Umbriel is the darkest large moon of Uranus.

Samhain

“Summer’s end,” and is also a Gaelic festival about the beginning of winter. There are some legends that associate the festival with sacrifice and bonfires.

Deimos

Dread.

Omen

Foreshadowing or a sign. Omen can be good or bad.

Corvus

”Raven.” These birds are popular amongst goths and goth culture. Ravens represent rebirth, mystery, intelligence, death, and magic in several cultures. The raven was the messenger for Odin in Norse mythology.

Loki

Airy, or “lock.”

Tristan

Tristan is from Old French triste and the Latin tristis and both mean ”sad.” Tristram and Tristran are different variations.

Salem

“Peace.” Salem is a Massachusetts town of witch trials.

Janus

Doorway.

Sexton

“Sacristan,” and the church officer who used to dug graves.

Mordred

“Painful.”

Prospero

“Fortunate.”

Yama

“Twin.” Yama was the first mortal to die in Vedic myth.

Dolan

“Dark and bold.”

Obsidian

From the Latin ‘obsidiānus,’ Obsidian means volcanic glass. It is formed from quickly cooled lava. In Game of Thrones, dragonglass is actually obsidian.

Malachar

”Messenger.” It is a form of the Hebrew Malachi, the author of the Book of Malachi.

Crom

“Crooked.”

Belshazzar

From Akkadian Bel-sharra-usur, “Bel, protect the king.”

Dagon

Grain, or fish.

Orcus

“Underworld,” and a likely source of the word ogre.

Ebon

“Ebony.”

Horace

Horace (“timekeeper”) Walpole wrote the first gothic novel.

Cesare

“Hairy.”

Graves

“Steward.”

Vex

To trouble/annoy.

Xolotl

“Dog.” In Aztec mythology, Xolotl was a god of fire and lightning.

Hemlock

Hemlock is a plant known for its toxic properties. Hem means “poison”.

Silas

”Forest” or ”wood,” and it is from Silvanus. It is used 13 times in the New Testament. In the Bible he was a missionary companion of Paul the Apostle.

Osiris

The mighty one.

Erebus

From the Greek Erebos, it means gloom or darkness. I find that if you are a Gothic enthusiast love the meaning of Erebus. In Greek mythology Erebus was the primordial god of darkness.

Marlowe

“Driftwood,” and a playwright stabbed to death in Deptford.

Cypress

From Greek kyparissos, a tree of mourning.

Hawthorne

“Hawthorn hedge.”

Theron

”Hunter.” Thoron and Thérond are variants.

Sephiroth

Sephiroth comes from the Hebrew Sefirot (“emanations”). In Kabbalah Sefirot are the ten attributes of God.

Manfred

“Man of peace.”

Mammon

It has origins in Aramaic mamona, wealth.

Duncan

“Brown chief.”

Victor

Victor (“conqueror”) Frankenstein stitches a creature from corpses.

Acheron

“River of woe.”

Sullivan

Dark-eyed, or hawk-eyed.

Alastor

“Avenger.”

Hyde

“Hide of land,” and Dr Jekyll’s monstrous other half.

Hamlet

Hamlet (“fool,” in Old Norse) is a Danish prince who’s haunted by his father’s ghost.

Dante

It is short for Italiaan Durante (”persistent”). Dante Alighieri is the author of the poem Divine Comedy where he describes an imaginative vision of the afterlife.

Attila

“Little father.”

Lycaon

Lycaon (“wolfish”) served Zeus a meal of human flesh and became a wolf.

Caligula

Caligula is from Latin and means “little boot.” It is a diminutive form of caligae which were the standard military sandal-boots used by Roman foot-soldiers. He was the 3rd Roman emperor who was assassinated on 24 January 41.

Nergal

“Lord of the great city.”

Leviathan

“Coiled,” and the title of Thomas Hobbes’s book on the state.

Wraith

Ghost.

Ymir

“Groaner.” Ymir was a giant whose body became the world.

Rahu

“The seizer.”

Blake

Black, pale, bright, or shining.

Tantalus

“Enduring.” Tantalus is the king whose punishment produced the verb tantalize.

Onyx

“Fingernail.”

Valdis

It has roots in the Latvian word valdīt, ”to govern” or ”to rule.” Valdis also has its origins in the Norse elements val and dís which is the goddess of the dead.

Orpheus

“Darkness of night,” Orpheus is the legendary hero in Greek mythology. He was born with a god-like gift for music.

Cain

Cain (“acquired”) is the first murderer in Genesis.

Dougal

“Dark stranger.”

Judas

“Praised.”

Ruthven

From Gaelic ruadh, red. It is pronounced RIV-en.

Boris

Fighter, or snow leopard.

Koschei

“Bony,” and a Slavic sorcerer whose death hides inside a needle.

Orestes

Mountain dweller.

Noctis

Belonging to the night or of the night.

Beelzebub

It is composed of the verb ba’al (that means ”to control” or ”to be lord over”) and the Hebrew zebub (”fly”). In the Bible Beelzebub (“Lord of the Flies”) is the prince of the devils and a former Seraph turned high-ranking Archdemon.

Itzal

Basque itzal, “shadow.”

Ichabod

Ichabod (“no glory”) Crane flees a headless horseman in Sleepy Hollow.

Belial

“Worthless.”

Edgar

“Rich spear”.

Ambrose

“Immortal.” Ambrose was a writer of eerie tales who vanished in Mexico.

Typhon

To smoke/smolder.

Faust

In Germanic legends Doctor Faustus was a very learned man and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge. It means ”lucky” or ”fortunate.” His story is explained in Thomas Mann’s novel Doktor Faustus.

Vesper

”Evening star.”

Grimoire

It has its origins in the Old French word grammaire (grammar). A grimoire is a book of spells that is useful to practitioners of witchcraft.

Phantom

An apparition or a ghost.

Sable

Dusky.

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Tenebris

Tenebris is an excellent Gothic name for a baby boy. It derives from the Latin tenebrae, meaning “darkness.”

Ulric

It is related to the German Ulrich (ruler of the heritage) and the Old English Wulfric (wolf ruler).

Azrael

“Help of God,” and the angel of death in Islamic lore.

Gethin

“Swarthy”.

Absalom

Absalom has Hebrew roots, with a meaning I find ironic for a rebel son: “father of peace.”

Vortigern

“Great king.”

Klaus

Klaus (“victory of the people”) Kinski played the vampire in Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu.

Armand

Armand is the French form of Herman that is made of Germanic elements harja- (“army”) and mann- (“man”).

Nightshade

“Shade of night,” and is rooted in the Old English ”nihtscada.” Nightshades are a family of plants that includes peppers and tomatoes.

Vladislav

One who owns glory.

Marcin

Marcin or Marcim is the Polish Martin, from Mars.

Tamas

Darkness, ignorance or inertia in Sanskrit, and “twin” as Hungarian Tamás.

Cernunnos

“Horned one.”

Mallory

“Ill-fated,” as well as a climber who vanished near Everest’s summit.

Ash

Ash tree, or burnt remains.

Thanatos

In Greek myths, Thanatos is the personification of death.

Quinlan

It is an Anglicized short variation of Gaelic Ó Caoindealbháin and is meaning ”descendant of Caoindealbhán.”

Warrick

”Leader who defends.”

Abaddon

It has Hebrew origins and it translates as “to be destroyed” or ”to perish.”

”A fire burning down to Abaddon, Consuming the roots of all my increase.” Job 31:12

Bane

“Glorious defender.”

Mephisto

In German folklore, Mephisto or Mephistopheles is a demon. It is symbolizing ”not a friend of light.”

Duff

Dark.

Krampus

From German Krampen, claw.

Hypnos

“Sleep,” and a Greek god who is found in the root of hypnosis.

Raziel

“Secret of God.”

Tempest

Tempest is gender neutral and means ”stormy” or “turbulent”.

Magnus

“Great” in Latin. Magnus Olafsson was King of Denmark as well as the King of Norway.

Corbin

Corbin is from Latin and means ”raven” or “crow.”

Heathcliff

“Cliff near a heath,” and a brooding orphan of Wuthering Heights.

Behemoth

From Hebrew behemah, beast.

Seraph

“Burning one.”

Grendel

It comes from Old English grindan, to grind.

Lorcan

Lorcan is Irish, with a meaning I find sweet for a dark name: “little fierce one.”

Hades

Unseen.

Moros

“Doom.”

Surt

“Black.” Surt is a fire giant who sets the world aflame at Ragnarök.

Damien

To tame/subdue.

Hagen

“Enclosure.”

Cassius

Hollow.

Sebastian

“Venerable.”

Jett

Black gem. Jett is a stone Queen Victoria wore in mourning.

Phelan

Wolf.

Charon

“Keen gaze,” or fierce brightness.

Prometheus

“Forethought,” and a Titan whose liver an eagle ate each day.

Balor

“Deadly one,” with an eye that killed whatever it looked upon.

Oberon

“Elf king.”

Akuma

“Devil”.

Wolfram

Wolf raven.

Damocles

Damocles (“glory of the people”) dined under a sword hung by one horsehair.

Uther

Uther is Welsh, with a meaning that I love on a gothic boy: “terrible.”

Valerian

Healthy.

Revenant

From French revenant, one who comes back.

Bram

Bram (“father of many”) Stoker wrote Dracula.

Draco

“Dragon.” Draco was an Athenian lawmaker who inspired the word draconian.

Phobos

“Fear.”

Ossian

“Little deer.”

Usher

“Doorkeeper,” and a doomed family in a tale by Edgar Allan Poe.

Caliban

It comes from cannibal, with letters rearranged.

Crowley

“Crow wood.”

Merlin

“Sea fortress.”

Melanthios

“Black flower.”

Macbeth

From Gaelic Mac Bethad, son of life.

Kieran

“Little dark one.”

Zagreus

“Great hunter”.

Rune

Secret, whisper, mystery, or a carved letter.

Sweeney

“Pleasant,” and a London barber who murders his customers.

Remus

“Swift.”

Darcy

“Dark one.”

Azazel

From Hebrew ez ozel, “goat that departs.”

Brutus

Dull.

Hex

German Hexe, witch.

Sheridan

“Seeker.”

Fenrir

“Fen dweller,” and a wolf who ripped away Tyr’s hand.

Cyprian

“From Cyprus.”

Morpheus

Morpheus (“shape”) is a god of dreams in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Cole

“Charcoal.”

Oscar

Deer friend, or “spear of the gods.”

Bela

Bela (“white”) Lugosi named himself after Lugoj, his birthplace in Romania.

Ignatius

“Fiery.”

Nero

“Strong.” Nero was an emperor blamed for Rome’s great fire.

Jericho

“Moon”, or fragrant.

Samael

“Venom of God.”

Iago

“Supplanter.”

Golem

“Shapeless mass,” and a clay giant from Prague legend.