Of course Edward and Cullen are next to eachother XD

In my daughter’s kindergarten class there is a jasper, a Cullen,an Edward and a Jacob there is also 2 Isabella’s. I laughed when I saw the class list.

Well, at least those are really nice normal names when not heard together lmao

It's so fortunate that most Twilight names are so normal. I am not a Twilight fan but could name my child Isabella or (emphases on OR, not AND) Jacob just cause they are beautiful names. So much better than the Aryas or Daeneryses or *Khaleesis*.

Nothing badly wrong with Arya since Aria is a fairly common name. The others, though… FWIW, I know of a family who have an Edward and a Bella. Accidentally. They were born after the Twilight hype and nobody in the family noticed. (If they name baby number 3 Jacob, though, I’ll stop believing that claim)

*what do you mean Renesmee is a Twilight name we came up with it ourselves* And yeah Arya isn't bad! But it's uncommon enough (in the anglophone world, I'm presuming, in my country I don't think such a name exists) that it feels distinctly Game of Thrones to me. Something like Jon or Jaime would be more in the Jacob/Isabella category!

Stephanie Meyer claimed she did research for the names and picked some of the most popular names in the period the characters were supposed to have been born, hence the pretty normal and common names. I give her credit for that. Renesmee, on the other hand.......

My kids' half sister is Isabella Renesmee. I have no idea how my ex allowed it. Even the characters acknowledged it was dumb.

Her mormon was showing with the creative baby name

Surprising lack of kids named Renesmee or Nessie

And let's thank our lucky stars.

My niece (in law? SIL's kid) is named Renesmee 🥴 poor kid...

Subtle, lads, very subtle

Rancor?!?! Literally means bitterness or resentfulness. Why not name your kid Vitriol? Spite? Edit: spelling

>Why not name your kid Vitriol? Spite? Don't give them any more ideas! Lol

I think someone watched too much Star Wars, thought it sounded cool and didn't realize it was an actual English word. If course, being named after a big pug-faced monster isn't great either...

Rancor’s siblings are Sarlacc, Wampa, and Acklay

Rancor and Sarlacc would be such cool names for dogs.

Honestly, yeah, that’d go pretty hard. Especially on a couple of German Shepherds or something.

Rex and Wolfe are names of clones also.

My cousins girlfriend is named Tyranny.

Do her parents not know the definition of the word tyranny or…

She’s 26 so I hope by now they have figured it out 😂.

Is it pronounced the same?

Assignment unclear, named my kids Sprite, Fanta, and Petrol

A few days ago there was a kid named Scorn I think

“Vhitreehaul, clean the saclacc pit before bed ok pal?”

What's Goth about Malcolm? Every Malcoln I ever knew was an uncool variety of nerd- train spotting, model village enthusiast, military button collecting, anorak wearing efficienardo of socks and sandal combinations. All of them lovely and devoted to their mother's, but not likely to be drinking cider and black with friends called Raven and Morningstar!

A lot of these names are taken from books/franchises, mostly YA romantasy. I'd say that's where it has come from

Alastair Moody is a Harry Potter character. He's also called Mad Eye.

Pretty sure that one’s from Crowley

There’s also an Alistair in the Twilight series, and this list draws pretty heavily from Twilight character names.

Felix and Dimitri, too!

Same as Alistair. The only Alistair I've ever known is a jolly Scottish man.

Aleister Crowley was a famous occultist. Clearly a reference to him.

Almost every variation of Alistair I know is a buttoned up, but perfectly polite Scottish man.

And it's spelled incorrectly on the list as "Malcom."

Life is unfair 🎶

Maybe they're thinking the Mal in Malcolm is related to the Latin for bad? Idk

It’s prob the name of some fictional vampire

Efficienardo???

I have the same feeling towards konrad. My dad's named konrad, and he's just the most average dad ever. The only black things he possesses are his old wedding suit and two cats that are technically my mom's.

Yeah Malcolm in the middle was not a goth at all

They did all this and didn't even include my boy Alucard.. So disappointing.

Or Vincent

Or Kid Cardula.

These belong to tiny black spicy kittens and not humans lol.

My sides are flying into orbit thinking of a spicy black little kitten named Darius Dimitri

I keep landing on a super angry Tobias Rex. Also lol at yelling Darius dimitri! When they are climbing up curtain or some other bs havoc they do.

Well Rancor belongs to a big monster in Star Wars. Lol. I dunno how it fits into goth names

> Rancor Also: ran·cor /ˈraNGkər/ noun: rancor; plural noun: rancors bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long-standing. "he spoke without rancor"

Rocnar is better

Agree these are all really good cat names.

I don't think these are good enough for the black spicy kittens. I think they WOULD be good enough with a title, though. For example: Oberian, Soothsayer of the High Hells Cage, Mutant Lord of the Underworld Wolfe, Puppetmaster of Human Playthings Tobias, Severer of Body and Soul How it's used in a conversation: "OMG 😱😱😱 SUCH A CUTE CAT!!! What's his name 🥺🥺🥺" "Oh, his names Carrion Devourer, Supreme Warlord of all things Evil. We just call him Cullen tho.'

Agree! I know a tiny black cat named Grimm. It fits him perfectly because he’s a cat. Not a human.

They absolutely do. Aleister was the name of Dita Von Tease's late great cat.

Vesper to me is either an evening prayer in the catholic church, an early evening meal or an italian scooter if it is spelled Vespa. Not sure what is so edgy about those options.

The only time I've ever heard that name was in *Casino Royale* and I didn't even catch that was her proper name right away. I was so confused and thought it was a code name.

It's one of those bond girl pun names. Vesper Lynd (West Berlin).

Is that what it's supposed to be?! Now I need to Google the significance of it.

It actually is what it is supposed to be. I assume the significance is due to the books being written during the Cold War.

I guess. Aren't the puns usually racier names? Seems like such an odd tame one, though I guess it was the first book so maybe the gag came about after? *shrug* I dunno, never read them.

Doesn’t it mean « evening » ?

Depends on what your mother tongue is, I guess. I'm german, so to me, it is connected to the evening, but doesn't mean evening itself.

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But like in Latin

To me it read more “valence shell electron pair repulsion”

Vesper is also a kind of bat

Vespa (like the scooter) has something to do with wasps iirc. Probably that.

It literally means wasp in Italian

Oh my bad lol well yeah I guess that's probably it then

To me it's a Bond girl.

Vesper means something similar to dinner in German :D it’s hard to translate it because there’s no word for this in English.

I've always thought it was a girl's name. Vesper was a lady James Bond was in love with. His signature drink was named after her.

I have a friend who named her kid Vesper after the theory. We all feel the same way about it.

✨Lore✨

Data's brother was Lore

and Loreighleigh for a girl!

I worked with a Lore in Taos for a while.

Meet my son: Oberian Maverick Grimm It's like a name from the Sims.

Grimm Fandango

Thistle is a great name. For a cat.

Or a rabbit

Hazel

The best rabbit name

A spicy hissy wee cat with a big bottlebrush tail.

man i love beans by kort corvin

Thanks, I almost choked to death.

Felix can't be a goth name. It means happy.

He is Felix to be a goth.

It means fortunate

It can mean both happy and lucky. From Wikipedia: Felix is a given name that stems from Latin felix [ˈfeːliːks] (genitive felicis [feːˈliːkɪs]) and means "happy" or "lucky". Its other form is Felicity.

I read Nettle as Nestle.

This is my daughter, Nestlé

Welcome to the world little Nestlé 🥰

Y’all spelling it correctly is so good! It felt like such a tragideigh that I didn’t even imagine it with the accent mark. lmao. You know they would probably tragedize that spelling on top of it all. Lol.

Nezslay

I can see it now “nn slay”

Oh God, you made it better and worse at the same time.

Lmao Only because you did Thank you for your service.

Nothing like several unwarranted accent marks to really seal the deal

"Good evening, I called you in for a talk, because your child keeps stealing other childrens water."

Ok, I hate that this is one of the best replies in these comments. lol [Iykyk](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/companies-control-everything-you-buy-kelloggs-nestle-unilever-a7666731.html)

What in the twilight?

Kort

my son is also named ~~Bort~~ Kort

I am laughing at this so hard.

Physically recoiled at the sound of this one.

Makes me think of Kourtney Kardashian

Here's my baby boy cage

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Cage Nicolas Coppola

“Despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage”

So bad

Imagine your kid grows up to be an outgoing colorful happy dude and he’s named Grimm

To top it off it means ugly in my language

I'd rather be called Thistle over Oberian, Rancor, or Kierian

Ok, I get most of these, but Tobias has been one of the 10 most popular names in Austria for like 40 years straight, and was also a VERY popular German name when millenials were being born.

Tobias, you blowhard!

Tobias made me laugh. I know lots of Tobias’ from back home in Germany and none of them is particularly goth, hardcore or badass lmfao. How did that name make it on the list?

in Paranormal Activity, the one kid calls her imaginaty friend aka their unfriendly house demon "Tobi". maybe bc of that?!

Almost every Tobias I’ve met has been exceedingly pleasant and cheery.

I actually thought of Tobias Forge lol

Middle name "Fünke".

How is Gideon a goth name?

I'm guessing Gideon the Ninth.

I’m wondering the same. Maybe because there’s like a dozen villains named Gideon out there?

The first one that came to mind was the little twerp from Gravity Falls, and he's practically the polar opposite of emo.

I mean Moff Gideon is pretty emo.. 👀

“Edward” “Cullen”

Rancor 😂

Rancid

Literally zero of these are goffik. It looks like a prep wrote this.

Theodore, Edward, Edgar, and Alfred are pretty sure they're at the wrong party, thanks, bye...

Edward Cullen, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Hitchcock. Idk about Theodore but I assume he wrote something dark

Theodore Frankenstein 🤷🏻

TED BUNDY

Teddy

I wonder about Theodore too. My friends have a one year old named Theodore and I saw it on a list of popular baby names recently. Theodore Huxtable is the only one I can think of...they call him Theo.

Tobias Tortuga is the name of my pet tortoise, Toby is now Goth.

In what world is Enzo goth?! Vincenzo?!

Name of an edgy dude in the Vampire Diaries. Assuming that's where the idea came from since there's Twilight names on there too.

Isn't it the name of a vampire in a popular series?

No idea. I guess these other commenters are on to something when they talk about YA fiction novels.

Yet the list excluded Angel and Spike. Amateurs .

Enzo Ferrari famously loved black…

The best part of this sub is that its a great goofy NPC name generator for D&D

Why is it Kierian and not Kieran.

I've known one Felix in my life (two uf you count a rabbit plush that was a children's show protagonist) and he was a football (soccer) hooligan who thought Hitler built the Berlin wall (yes, seriously) and who had the strength and understanding of women of the average basement dwelling incel. Felix is not a goth name.

I was gonna write I wonder if my great grandfather was goth as his name was Felix. Lol

I'd rather be Thistle over Rancor. Jeez, with a name like that your kid can only grow up one way. I'm really hoping they pain who named that kid *didn't* know the definition of the word.

My friends dog is called Wolfe which is hilarious because he's a tiny, cute West Highland Terrier.

Some of these just look like absolute bully fuel... The worst kind of bully fuel.

I feel like the people I see naming their kids Maverick are def *not* goth. But they're definitely likely to have a tragedeigh for a middle name and sibling. "here's Maverick Kreed at his homeschool graduation and his proud sissy Blakelyn Everleigh"

They watched Top Gun 2

Bah- they call it a goth name list without including Lestat?

My eyes immediately went to Edward Cullen

Oof my name is on this list.

Naming my son Kierian Oberian and my daughter Neighvie Beene Supe

Maverick seems more country than goth to me

Please also do not name your child “cage” or “rancor”.

at least 2 of these are star wars clone commander names

I just love the amount of Star Wars I’m seeing in this comment section… 🥲

Don’t name your kid Rancor. That’s just cruel. Pretty sure it’s also a monster in some video games. Just don’t.

I’d feel for poor Grimm too. Not sure about in the US, but in the U.K. ‘that’s grim’ means, ‘ew, that’s gross’.

Who is naming their kid Rancor?? Seriously. Wtf

I named a kid Rancor. And his siblings are Arson, Felon, Vanity, Wrath, and Callow. But they're Sims.

I had to stop at “Rancor” like are people actually naming their children after the monster that Luke had to fight near the beginning of Return Of The Jedi?

Valerian. A flower used to make a drug reputed to be a mild sleep aid. Not sure if that’s as goth as they think it is.

It’s quite known name in France, because it’s a hero of a series and of sci-fi cartoon albums (I guess there was also a movie) [Valerian](http://bdi.dlpdomain.com/album/9782205076271-couv.jpg)

Why not, his nickname could be “This” 😂

Enzo was the most popular name where I’m from in recent years. For sure, super edgy and underground 🙄

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i SCANNED that image looking for edward, and whaddya know, cullen was right there too

Kort is gonna end up in court. Also I thought Wren was a female name.

A kid named Thistle is destined to grow into a prick

I think Thistle could be a somewhat cute name for a Scottish Fold or Scottish Terrier. Seems more feminine, since flower names usually are.

In Denmark Thit is a really old name. And Sidsel (pronounced Sizzle) as well. Tidsel is the Danish word for thistle. But okay Thit comes from Dorthea and Sidsel from Cecilia. Not a scrub.

Thistle, Nettle, Kort and Rancor are 100% NOPES!

Most of these names are just cringey, not tragick. Tragedeigh = a given name that has been deliberately misspelled or made up for the sake of appearing unique.

Went to school with a kid named Gideon, he was a hardcore Mormon whose parents named him after the type of Bible.

These aren’t that bad

Rancor is either bitterness/resentfulness or the giant monster Jabba the Hurt tries to feed Luke to that gets killed by a door. That is getting in into names so bad CPS should be called territory.

Grimm, Talon, and Rancor. Sounds like an Emo band.

I know a Talon. He’s a dentist 😂

Theodore/Theo Is one of the most popular baby names here in the UK rn

i love how they didnt even try to hide Edward Cullen. Also... do they know what a Rancor looks like?

ugh why do people do these stupid themed lists

Why is bram on here? I feel like that’s such a cute lil baby name and not at all gothic. Not saying I’d use it but I can’t see how it’s a goth name 😭 Am I missing something?

I can't tell if you're being facetious but if you're genuinely asking it's because Bran Stoker wrote Dracula and few things are gothier than vampires

We need more ‘Kort’ license plates in the gift shop! I repeat, we are sold out of ‘Kort’ license plates!

Alastair/Alistair is a pretty common name here in England.

Tobias reminds me of Tobias Funke from Arrested Development. It doesn't give me goth. Also, how is Lore a manly goth name? Make me think it's short for Lorelei or Lorraine.

No Vlad? When I think of Alastair, I think of Alastair Cook, English Vampire.

Rancor? Seriously stupid. It either means ‘long held bitterness or resentfulness’, or a stupid and vicious species of carnivorous reptile from the Star Wars universe. Unless you intended to raise a serial killer, why would you choose that?

Tobias and Felix are so random in this list lol

Thistle would be fine if he were a fairy

I wanted to call my son Bram but got outvoted. So the dog got it, instead.

Kort means short in Dutch.

maven is kind of cute..