# Names for a goth girl **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 16, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494 "2007-02-16T16:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/41 "2007-02-16T21:41:03Z")
[QUOTE=Flip Pancake] Aria Feist **Six** Myst [/QUOTE] Any relation to Seven Costanza? ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/42 "2007-02-16T21:44:43Z")
Violet Victoria Lolita Lulu Lily Artica Malicia Nod to Raven. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/43 "2007-02-16T21:48:17Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Perhaps **Perdita** (meaning _Unwanted One_, if I am not mistaken). [/QUOTE] Close, it means "lost’. Which I only know from reading The Hundred and One Dalmatians. (The eighteenth dalmatian, after Pongo, Missus, and their 15 puppies, was a liver spotted Dalmatian which Mrs. Dearly nearly ran over with her car. She had just had her own puppies taken away, so they brought her home to help Missus nurse the pups, and they named her Perdita 'cause she was lost. Her pups were also found in Cruella’s custody at Hell Hall, and rescued with all the others, making 100. The hundred and oneth dalmatian, incidentally, was Perdita’s husband, Prince. ) But the name was invented by Shakespeare, to describe an abandoned (“lost”) baby in “The Winter’s Tale”. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/44 "2007-02-16T21:53:33Z")
Reagan Cordelia Goneril ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/45 "2007-02-16T21:54:22Z")
I should bookmark this thread for the next time I need to name something. I like almost all of these. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/46 "2007-02-16T21:59:14Z")
Tamora was Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare’s **Titus Andronicus** : she ended up unknowingly eating a pie made out of her sons - after which she got shown their severed heads - as part of Titus’ revenge for their having raped his daughter Lavinia and cut off her hands and tongue. Titus then stabbed both his daughter and Tamora, whereupon he himself got stabbed. And you don’t get much more Goth than that. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/47 "2007-02-16T22:17:13Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Alice, Marian, Lucretia - if she’s old-school anyway. Possibly Severina. [/QUOTE] heh, Nice. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/48 "2007-02-17T01:15:59Z")
Okay, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/49 "2007-02-17T02:24:06Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] … Wednesday? (I loved the Addams Family before the TV show gave them names) [/QUOTE] How about Wodensday to be different. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/50 "2007-02-17T02:55:05Z")
It looks like people have first names covered, but I do have a surname suggestion - Loveless. When I was in college I knew someone with that last name, and I was always faintly surprised she wasn’t a goth 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/51 "2007-02-17T03:43:09Z")
her name is Nyteshaed, yo don’t call her Cherry Tomato ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/52 "2007-02-17T03:51:16Z")
Dysphoria Hecate Discordia Annabelle Lee Lenore [Amalsuntha](http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/medrenqueens/p/amalasuntha.htm) Kore (pronounced "Kore-ay’) Phaedra Medea Antigone I like the classics. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/53 "2007-02-17T03:59:38Z")
Back in the day of prime gothdom (the eighties), the most goth lass I ever went out with was called Bobbi. That was her real name - who knows where her sixties mother got that name from! I got my left-hand pinky stuck in one of Bobbi’s nipple rings the first time we slept together. EEEK! Gingerly sorted out with an ice cube. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/54 "2007-02-17T04:03:56Z")
On that note: Ophelia Maeve (pronounced May-ev) Bathsheba Delilah Or: Erzebet (As in Countess Bathory) Hedwig Helwise Jezebel ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/55 "2007-02-17T05:28:04Z")
Jane Alice Petunia? Pennyroyal would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/56 "2007-02-17T08:21:45Z")
Nightshade (don’t call her cherry tomato). And Seven is a man’s name! ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/57 "2007-02-17T08:55:00Z")
My brother named his cat **Torment**. Cat name, goth girl name, what’s the difference? It works, right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Septima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@Septima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Septima)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/58 "2007-02-17T09:53:24Z")
If she read “Carpe Jugulum”, she might go for Lacrimosa. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/59 "2007-02-17T09:59:18Z")
Ambergris or is that more punk? [QUOTE=Struan] I got my left-hand pinky stuck in one of Bobbi’s nipple rings the first time we slept together. EEEK! Gingerly sorted out with an ice cube. [/QUOTE] I would think that would make it worse. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494/60 "2007-02-17T10:33:02Z")
If she wanted to blend in, she could be an invisi-goth. Ok, that was bad. I vote for Madea or Pandora. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-for-a-goth-girl/392494.md?page=4)