100+ Halloween Baby Names That Are Hauntingly Beautiful

The magic of Halloween is something special. I know you know that, otherwise you wouldn’t have landed on this Halloween baby name list. But honestly, whatever is in the air in October… I just want to bottle it up. I could live in this eerie yet cozy season forever.

If you’re a Halloween fanatic, a baby name inspired by your favorite spooky season just makes sense. Maybe you are due around Halloween or you just want a name with some seasonal magic built in – think flickering jack-o-lanterns, crunching leaves underfoot, scary movie nights, black cats with golden eyes, friendly ghosts, cinnamon and cloves… all the best things.

Here are 100+ Halloween names for girls, boys, and gender neutral choices, as well. Happy name collecting, my spooky little friend!

Halloween Girl Names

Agatha — Agatha Harkness, Marvel’s centuries-old witch
Annabel — evokes Annabelle, the haunted doll from The Conjuring
Apple — the fruit
Ariadne — gave Theseus the thread to escape the labyrinth, Greek myth
Autumn — the fall season
Bellatrix — Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry Potter’s fiercest villain
Buffy — Buffy Summers, the original vampire slayer
Carrie — Stephen King’s telekinetic prom-night horror
Cat — black cat energy
Celeste — heavenly
Chrysanthemum — the classic fall flower
Coraline — Neil Gaiman’s girl who finds a sinister other world
Cordelia — Cordelia Chase, character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Dahlia — the deep-hued fall flower
Daphne — turned into a laurel tree fleeing Apollo, Greek myth
Ebony — dark black wood
Elvira — Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, horror hostess icon
Eve — as in All Hallows’ Eve
Halle — a play on Halloween
Hazel — autumn inspired
Hermoine — Hermione Granger, Harry Potter’s brightest witch
Ivy — Poison Ivy, the botanical Batman villain
Jacklyn — a play on jack-o-lantern
Jade — precious green stone
Kali — Hindu goddess of destruction and time
Katrina — Katrina Van Tassel, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Kitty — black cat energy
Lenore — the lost love mourned in Poe’s “The Raven”
Lilith — Adam’s first wife in Jewish folklore, a demon figure
Luna — Luna Lovegood, Harry Potter’s dreamy seer
Lydia — Lydia Deetz, Beetlejuice
Maeve — warrior queen of Irish mythology
Mara — root of the word “nightmare” in Scandinavian folklore
Mary — as in “Bloody Mary,” the mirror legend
Matilda — Roald Dahl’s telekinetic heroine
Mina — Mina Harker, Dracula
Morgana — Morgan le Fay, Arthurian sorceress
Morrigan — Celtic shape-shifting goddess of war and fate
Narcissa — Narcissa Malfoy, Harry Potter character
Nova — new; bright new star
Nyx — Greek goddess of night
Octavia — inspired by October
Opal — precious gemstone
Ophelia — Hamlet’s tragic, drowned love, Shakespeare
Penny — inspired by Pennywise
Persephone — Greek goddess of the underworld
Rhiannon — Welsh goddess also immortalized in the Fleetwood Mac song about a witch
Rosamund — famous protector
Rosemary — Rosemary’s Baby, classic occult horror film
Rowena — Rowena Ravenclaw, Harry Potter Hogwarts founder
Ruby — red gemstone
Sabrina — Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Sally — Sally, Jack Skellington’s love in The Nightmare Before Christmas
Samantha — Samantha Stephens, Bewitched
Samara — the ghost girl from The Ring
Sarah — Sarah Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
Scarlet — bright red color
Selene — vampire warrior of the Underworld films; also the Greek moon goddess
Shelley — Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
Stella — star
Stormy — tempestuous weather
Sybil — prophetess of Greek myth
Tabitha — Tabitha Stephens, Bewitched
Thora — thunder
Trixie — a play on tricks or treats
Twila — twilight
Winifred — Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus

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Halloween Boy Names

Adam — man of the earth
Alastor — Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, Harry Potter
Amon — ancient Egyptian deity
Azriel — angel of death in folklore; also a character in A Court of Thorns and Roses
Boris — Boris Karloff, the original screen Frankenstein’s monster
Bram — Bram Stoker, author of Dracula
Casper — Casper the Friendly Ghost
Cassius — hollow
Cullen — Edward Cullen, Twilight
Damien — Damien Thorn, The Omen
Damon — Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
Diablo — devil
Draco — Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter
Drake — dragon
Edgar — Edgar Allan Poe
Edward — Edward Scissorhands
Elijah — Elijah Mikaelson, The Vampire Diaries / The Originals
Freddy — Freddy Krueger, A Nightmare on Elm Street
Giles — Rupert Giles, Buffy’s Watcher
Hal — a play on Halloween
Igor — the hunchbacked assistant of classic Frankenstein films
Jack — Jack Skellington, The Nightmare Before Christmas
Jason — Jason Voorhees, Friday the 13th
Jasper — Jasper Hale, Twilight
Klaus — Klaus Mikaelson, The Vampire Diaries / The Originals
Leviathan — biblical sea monster
Merlin — legendary wizard of Arthurian legend
Michael — Michael Myers, Halloween
Mortimer — still water
Myers — Michael Myers, Halloween
Norman — Norman Bates, Psycho
Nox — the light-extinguishing spell in Harry Potter
Octavius — a play on October
Orion — the Hunter constellation, Greek mythology
Oscar — divine spear
Poe — Edgar Allan Poe
Silas — the ancient immortal villain of The Vampire Diaries
Stefan — Stefan Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries
Victor — Victor Frankenstein, creator of the monster
Vincent — Vincent Price, horror film icon
Vladimir — Vlad the Impaler, the historical inspiration for Dracula
Wolf — wolf