Gothic Name Generator

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Generate gothic names that sound like they belong in Poe, the Brontës or a Hammer horror film: Victorian and Regency first names paired with brooding real surnames, plus classic gothic literary names from Lenore to Heathcliff. It also takes in Puritan headstone names, Victorian flower names, and names in the Continental and Southern Gothic traditions.

About gothic names

Gothic names come from a specific literary lineage: the Gothic novels of the late 1700s (The Castle of Otranto, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Monk), the Romantic and Victorian writers who inherited them (Poe, the Brontës, Stoker, Shelley, Wilde), and the twentieth-century revivals in film and television (the Addams Family, Tim Burton, Shirley Jackson, Dark Shadows). Their first names are the ones fashionable among the English gentry in the 1790s through 1890s: Ophelia, Lavinia, Rosamund, Wilhelmina, Sebastian, Barnabas, Roderick, Thaddeus. Their surnames are heavy, place-like and often real: Blackwood, Usher, Ravenscroft, Rochester, de Winter.

What separates a gothic name from a merely dark one is restraint. Lenore, Heathcliff and Miss Havisham contain no horror words at all; their weight comes from age, sound and association. Latin and Greek names (Persephone, Cassius, Ianthe, Lucius) and Puritan virtue names (Prudence, Temperance, Mercy) both work because they sound like they were carved on a headstone.

To build a full gothic name, pair a long, ornate first name of three or four syllables with a shorter, harder surname (Evangeline Mortlake, Ambrose Wexley), or invert it with a crisp first name and an ornate surname (Maud Wolstenholme, Enoch Cadwallader). Titles, initials and estate names (Lady Isolde Thornhill of Thornhill Hall) push it further toward the aristocratic decay the genre loves.

How to choose gothic names

  • Choose first names that were genuinely in use between about 1780 and 1900. A quick check of Victorian census names will tell you whether Ottoline passes and Kaylee does not.
  • Balance syllables: one long, ornate name and one short, heavy one (Wilhelmina Voss, Hugo Chillingham) reads better than two long ones.
  • Avoid stacking dark words. Ophelia Blackwood is gothic; Ophelia Darkshadow Bloodmoon is a parody of it.
  • For a modern goth character rather than a period one, keep the gothic first name and give an ordinary surname (Lenore Patel, Dorian Reyes) so the contrast does the work.
  • Borrow structure from the canon: Poe's women get single lyrical names (Lenore, Ligeia), Brontë men get surnames as first names (Heathcliff, Linton), and Victorian villains get a title (Mrs. Danvers, Signor Montoni).

Frequently asked questions

What are classic gothic names from literature?

Lenore, Ligeia, Morella and Annabel Lee (Poe), Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw (Wuthering Heights), Jane Eyre and Rochester, Rebecca de Winter and Mrs. Danvers, Carmilla, Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra (Dracula), Victor Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Roderick and Madeline Usher, and Miss Havisham are the best known.

What is the difference between gothic names and goth names?

Gothic names come from the literary and Victorian tradition and tend to be historically plausible (Evangeline, Ambrose, Ravenscroft). Goth names refer to the modern subculture and are often chosen aliases with a more theatrical edge (Raven, Morticia, Lestat). This list leans gothic; a goth name generator will lean the other way.

What are good gothic names for a girl or boy?

For girls: Ophelia, Lenore, Isolde, Rosamund, Lavinia, Seraphina, Elspeth, Wednesday and Morticia. For boys: Sebastian, Lucian, Dorian, Alaric, Ambrose, Barnabas, Silas, Roderick and Edgar. Many of these are in current use as baby names.

Can I use these names commercially?

Yes for the given names, surnames and public-domain literary characters (Poe, Stoker, Shelley, the Brontës died well over 70 years ago). Characters still under copyright, such as Wednesday Addams, Lydia Deetz or Merricat Blackwood, should be used as inspiration only.

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A: 84 names

  • Abel Trelawny
  • Abiatha Swelter
  • Abiel
  • Abraham Van Helsing
  • Addie Bundren
  • Adelaide
  • Adelaide Hester Rainsford
  • Adele Varens
  • Adeline de Montalt
  • Adrian
  • Affery Flintwinch
  • Agatha
  • Agatha De Lacey
  • Agnes Culpepper
  • Agnes de Medina
  • Agnes Grey
  • Alan Campbell
  • Alaric
  • Alaric Ravenwood
  • Albrecht von Greifenstein
  • Alcide Cormier
  • Alethea Dunmore
  • Alfonso the Good
  • Algernon
  • Alice Drablow
  • Alice Pyncheon
  • Alicia Audley
  • Alistair
  • Alonzo Moncada
  • Aloysius
  • Alphonse Frankenstein
  • Althea Vesey
  • Amabel Sackville
  • Amanda Fitzalan
  • Amaryllis
  • Ambrose
  • Ambrose Wexley
  • Ambrosine
  • Ambrosio
  • Amelia Nethercott
  • Aminadab
  • Amity

A, continued

  • Anastasia
  • Andromeda
  • Angelica
  • Angelique Bouchard
  • Annabel Lee
  • Annabella
  • Annabella Wilmot
  • Anne Catherick
  • Annette
  • Anselm Radcliffe
  • Antonia
  • Arabella
  • Araminta
  • Araminta Fenwick
  • Archdeacon Haynes
  • Archibald Thorncroft
  • Ariadne Greaves
  • Aristide Ledoux
  • Armand de Rochefort
  • Artemisia Holt
  • Arthur Dimmesdale
  • Arthur Gordon Pym
  • Arthur Havisham
  • Arthur Holmwood
  • Arthur Huntingdon
  • Arthur Kipps
  • Arthur Mervyn
  • Aspasia
  • Astarte
  • Atalanta
  • Auberon Lestrange
  • Aubrey
  • Augusta
  • Augusta Jane Ellwood
  • Auguste Dupin
  • Augustus
  • Aurelia
  • Aurelie de Clairvaux
  • Aurora
  • Austin Ruthyn
  • Aylmer
  • Azalea Robichaux

B: 36 names

  • Balthazar
  • Baltus Van Tassel
  • Banquo
  • Barkis Bittern
  • Barnabas
  • Barnabas Collins
  • Baron Casimir von Steiner
  • Baron Meinster
  • Baron Vordenburg
  • Baroness Meinster
  • Barquentine
  • Bartholomew
  • Basil Atherton
  • Basil Hallward
  • Bathsheba Quarles
  • Beatrice Lacy
  • Beatrice Rappaccini
  • Beatrix
  • Beatrix Hollowell
  • Beauregard Legare
  • Bedivere
  • Belinda
  • Benedict Hawthorne
  • Benjamin Barker
  • Berenice
  • Bertalda
  • Bertha Mason
  • Bertram Pennington
  • Beryl Stapleton
  • Bessie Lee
  • Blanche
  • Blanche de Villefort
  • Blanche Ingram
  • Boo Radley
  • Bradley Headstone
  • Brom Bones

C: 86 names

  • Caleb Balderstone
  • Caleb Williams
  • Calista
  • Calpurnia
  • Camellia
  • Camilla
  • Canon Alberic
  • Captain Gideon Hawke
  • Captain Horatio Vale
  • Captain Walton
  • Carathis
  • Cardillac
  • Carmilla Karnstein
  • Caroline
  • Caroline Ayres
  • Carwin
  • Casimir
  • Cassandra
  • Cassilda
  • Cassius
  • Cassius Fell
  • Catherine Earnshaw
  • Catherine Morland
  • Cathy Linton
  • Cecilia
  • Cecily Anne Hartwell
  • Celestine
  • Celine Varens
  • Cesare
  • Charity Skelton
  • Charles Blackwood
  • Charles Bon
  • Charles Dexter Ward
  • Charlotte Ravenhill
  • Childe Roland
  • Christabel
  • Christiana Peverell
  • Christine Daae
  • Cicero Middleton
  • Clara La Luc
  • Clara Talboys
  • Clara Wieland
  • Clarice Groan

C, continued

  • Clarimonde
  • Clarinda
  • Clarissa Thornbury
  • Claude Frollo
  • Clement Westcott
  • Clementine
  • Clifford Pyncheon
  • Clopin Trouillefou
  • Clothilde de Courcy
  • Clover Holbrook
  • Colonel Maximilian Drake
  • Comfort
  • Compeyson
  • Conrad of Otranto
  • Constance
  • Constance Blackwood
  • Constance Coldwater
  • Contessa Serafina Valenti
  • Coppelius
  • Cora Groan
  • Coral Hathaway
  • Cordelia
  • Cordelia Harrowgate
  • Corisande
  • Cornelia
  • Cornelius
  • Count de Villefort
  • Count Dracula
  • Count Fosco
  • Count Magnus
  • Count Morano
  • Count Orlok
  • Count Ottavio Morelli
  • Countess Dolingen
  • Countess Drusilla von Hartmann
  • Countess Gertrude
  • Countess Narona
  • Countess Octavia Merrow
  • Countess Zaleska
  • Cousin Lymon
  • Crispin Aldridge
  • Cuthbert Langdon
  • Cyprian

D: 38 names

  • Daisy Jessop
  • Damaris
  • Damien
  • Daphne Lascelles
  • De Lacey
  • Delia Deetz
  • Delilah Broussard
  • Deliverance
  • Delphine Lenoir
  • Demetrius
  • Desdemona
  • Diana Rivers
  • Diedrich Knickerbocker
  • Dietrich von Lichtenau
  • Dorcas Brandon
  • Dorian
  • Dorian Ashcroft
  • Dorian Gray
  • Dorothea
  • Dorothea Grace Fairbairn
  • Dorothee
  • Dowager Lady Rosamund Chase
  • Dr. Caligari
  • Dr. Erasmus Quill
  • Dr. Heidegger
  • Dr. Hesselius
  • Dr. Lanyon
  • Dr. Lazarus Finch
  • Dr. Montague
  • Dr. Moreau
  • Dr. Pretorius
  • Dr. Prunesquallor
  • Dr. Septimus Hallam
  • Dr. Seward
  • Drusilla
  • Drusilla Winterbourne
  • Dudley Ruthyn
  • Dunstan Weatherby

E: 68 names

  • Ebenezer Scrooge
  • Eblis
  • Edgar
  • Edgar Caswall
  • Edgar Huntly
  • Edgar Linton
  • Edith Cushing
  • Edith Venn
  • Edmund
  • Edmund Charles Ravensdale
  • Edmund Twyford
  • Edward Prendick
  • Edward Rochester
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Edwin Drood
  • Edwina Ashby-Royce
  • Egaeus
  • Eglantine
  • Elaine
  • Eleanor Tilney
  • Eleanor Vance
  • Eleanor Wintour
  • Electra Varley
  • Eleonora
  • Elfrida Hawksworth
  • Elias Lightfoot
  • Eliphalet
  • Elizabeth Lavenza
  • Ellen Hutter
  • Ellena Rosalba
  • Elspeth
  • Elspeth Blackmoor
  • Emily de Vere
  • Emily Grierson

E, continued

  • Emily St. Aubert
  • Emily the Corpse Bride
  • Emmeline Rookwood
  • Emmerich
  • Endymion
  • Enoch Cadwallader
  • Ephraim Whitby
  • Erasmus
  • Erastus
  • Erich Zann
  • Ermengarde
  • Esmeralda
  • Estella
  • Estelle Carew-Lisle
  • Esther Northcote
  • Esther Summerson
  • Ethan Brand
  • Etienne Montclair
  • Eudora Whitlock
  • Eugenia Ruth Stanbury
  • Eugenie Sackville-Thorne
  • Eulalie
  • Euphemia
  • Euphrasia
  • Eustace Fairweather
  • Evadne
  • Evander Locke
  • Evangeline
  • Evangeline Mortlake
  • Everard
  • Experience Tilden
  • Ezekiel
  • Ezra Hollis
  • Ezra Jennings

F: 25 names

  • Fabian Garroway
  • Fabrizio Ruggieri
  • Father Malachi Byrne
  • Faustina
  • Faustine
  • Felix De Lacey
  • Ferdinand
  • Ferdinando Falkland
  • Fern Ellery
  • Fester Addams
  • Fiammetta
  • Flora Bannerworth
  • Flora Lisle
  • Florence Eversleigh
  • Florian
  • Fortinbras
  • Fortunato
  • Frances Earnshaw
  • Francis Davey
  • Frank Crawley
  • Franklin Blake
  • Frederic of Vicenza
  • Frederick Fairlie
  • Frederick St. John Oakhurst
  • Fuchsia Groan

G: 40 names

  • Gabriel Betteredge
  • Gabriel Shadwell
  • Gabriel Utterson
  • Gail Hightower
  • Garnet
  • Gaspard Lemarchand
  • General Spielsdorf
  • General Tilney
  • Genevieve
  • Genevieve Delacroix
  • George Talboys
  • Georgiana
  • Georgiana Reed
  • Georgina Wynne-Mortimer
  • Geraint
  • Geraldine
  • Gertrude Oldcastle
  • Gervase Stanhope
  • Gideon
  • Gil-Martin
  • Gilbert Markham
  • Giles Morrow
  • Ginevra Fanshawe
  • Giovanni Guasconti
  • Giulietta Serafini
  • Godfrey Ablewhite
  • Godfrey Caldwell
  • Godfrey Schalken
  • Gomez
  • Goneril
  • Gottfried von Eisenberg
  • Grace Furnivall
  • Grace Poole
  • Grace Stewart
  • Grimesby Roylott
  • Griselda
  • Guinevere
  • Gulchenrouz
  • Gwendolen Mordaunt
  • Gwynplaine

H: 50 names

  • Hadrian Wakefield
  • Halpin Frayser
  • Hareton
  • Harriet
  • Harriet Elspeth Kerr
  • Hastur
  • Hazel Motes
  • Hazel Whitmore
  • Heathcliff
  • Heather Tallis
  • Hecuba
  • Helen Burns
  • Helen Graham
  • Helen Vaughan
  • Helena Landless
  • Helena Marchbanks
  • Heloise Desrosiers
  • Henrietta
  • Henrietta Maud Norrington
  • Henry Clerval
  • Henry Frankenstein
  • Henry Jekyll
  • Henry Tilney
  • Hepzibah Pyncheon
  • Herbert West
  • Hermione
  • Hester
  • Hester Prynne
  • Hezekiah Wainwright
  • Hieronymus
  • Hildegarde
  • Hildred Castaigne
  • Hindley
  • Hippolita
  • Hippolitus de Vereza
  • Holgrave
  • Homer Barron
  • Honoria Ashdown
  • Hop-Frog
  • Hopestill
  • Horatio
  • Hortense
  • Hosea Coldiron
  • Hubert Thorpe-Hardcastle
  • Hugh Crain
  • Hugo Chillingham
  • Huldbrand
  • Hulga Hopewell
  • Humphrey Paget
  • Hyperion

I: 26 names

  • Ianthe
  • Ichabod Crane
  • Ichabod Thorne
  • Idabel Thompkins
  • Ignatius
  • Igraine
  • Immalee
  • Imogen
  • Increase Thurston
  • Iphigenia
  • Iris Dashwood
  • Irma Prunesquallor
  • Isabeau
  • Isabeau Devereux
  • Isabella Linton
  • Isabella of Otranto
  • Isabella Thorpe
  • Isaure de Marigny
  • Isidora
  • Isidore Blackett
  • Ismay
  • Isobel Ashton-Hale
  • Isolde
  • Isolde Thornhill
  • Israfel
  • Ivy Blackwell

J: 38 names

  • Jabez Rutherford
  • Jack Favell
  • Jack Skellington
  • Jacob Marley
  • Jane Eyre
  • Jasper
  • Jedediah
  • Jem Merlyn
  • Jennet Humfrye
  • Jeremiah
  • Jerome Fitzroy
  • Jerome the Friar
  • Jerusha
  • Jocasta
  • Joel Harrison Knox
  • Johanna Oakley
  • John Graham Bretton
  • John Melmoth
  • Jonathan Harker
  • Joseph Curwen
  • Josephine Latimer
  • Josette du Pres
  • Josiah Tredgold
  • Joss Merlyn
  • Jubal Landry
  • Judge Harbottle
  • Judge Pyncheon
  • Judge Turpin
  • Judith Sexton
  • Judith Sutpen
  • Julia Hoffman
  • Julia Mazzini
  • Julian
  • Julian Blackwood
  • Juliana Bordereau
  • Julius Wren
  • Justine Moritz
  • Justinian

K: 8 names

  • Karswell
  • Katrina Van Tassel
  • Kenelm
  • Keturah
  • Keziah Stroud
  • Konrad von Drachenfels
  • Krook
  • Kunigunde von Hohenfels

L: 80 names

  • La Motte
  • Lady Arabella March
  • Lady Audley
  • Lady Augusta of Wintermere
  • Lady Clara Vere de Vere
  • Lady Clemency Thorne
  • Lady Dedlock
  • Lady Hermia Darrow
  • Lady Isolde Thornhill of Thornhill Hall
  • Lady Marguerite Ashworth
  • Lady Rowena
  • Lady Sybella Greystone
  • Lady Verinder
  • Laertes
  • Lafayette Mercer
  • Lalage
  • Lamia
  • Larry Talbot
  • Laura
  • Laura Fairlie
  • Laurence Ainsworth
  • Lavender
  • Lavinia
  • Lavinia Ashcombe
  • Lavinia Whateley
  • Lazarus
  • Leander Wyndham
  • Lemuel Osgood
  • Lenore
  • Lenore Ravenscroft
  • Leonidas Lamar
  • Leonora
  • Leontine Duvernay
  • Leopold
  • Leopoldine Nachtigall
  • Lestat de Lioncourt
  • Letitia Harkness
  • Lettice Blakeney
  • Ligeia
  • Lilian Warde

L, continued

  • Lilias Tremayne
  • Lily Corbett
  • Linnet Orme
  • Linton Heathcliff
  • Lionel Dering
  • Little Nell
  • Lockwood
  • Lord Ambrose Carrow
  • Lord Arthur Savile
  • Lord Godalming
  • Lord Henry Wotton
  • Lord Lowborough
  • Lord Lucian Averill
  • Lord Peregrine Ashby
  • Lord Ruthven
  • Lord Sepulchrave
  • Lorena Habersham
  • Lorenzo de Medina
  • Lothar Grimm
  • Louis de Pointe du Lac
  • Louisa Carstairs
  • Lucasta
  • Lucian
  • Lucian Mortimer
  • Lucifer
  • Lucille Sharpe
  • Lucinda Trevelyan
  • Lucius
  • Lucrece
  • Lucretia Marwood
  • Lucrezia Montanari
  • Lucy Ashton
  • Lucy Snowe
  • Lucy Westenra
  • Ludovico
  • Luke Sanderson
  • Lydia Bramwell
  • Lydia Deetz
  • Lydia Gwilt
  • Lynette

M: 120 names

  • Mabel Hollingworth
  • Madam Crowl
  • Madame Beck
  • Madame Cheron
  • Madame de la Rougierre
  • Madame de Menon
  • Madame Fosco
  • Madame Giry
  • Madame L'Espanaye
  • Madame Perrodon
  • Madame Walravens
  • Madeline Usher
  • Magdalen Vanstone
  • Magnolia Fontenot
  • Magnus
  • Magwitch
  • Mahala Winslow
  • Major Barnabas Welles
  • Malachi
  • Maleva
  • Manfred
  • Marcellus Harcourt
  • Marchesa di Vivaldi
  • Marchesa Violante Altieri
  • Marchioness de Villeroi
  • Margaret Saville
  • Margaret Trelawny
  • Marian Halcombe
  • Mariana
  • Marianne Lovell
  • Marion Willoughby
  • Markheim
  • Marmaduke
  • Marquis de Montalt
  • Mary Rivers
  • Mary Yellan
  • Master Jasper of Thornwick Manor
  • Master of Ravenswood
  • Mathilde Beauregard
  • Matilda
  • Matilda Weimar
  • Matthew Maule
  • Matthias
  • Maud Lilly
  • Maud Ruthyn
  • Maud Wolstenholme
  • Maurice Grey-Marlowe
  • Maxim de Winter
  • Maximilian
  • May Swann
  • Medardus
  • Medea da Carpi
  • Medora
  • Meg Merrilies
  • Mehitabel
  • Melisande
  • Melmoth the Wanderer
  • Melusine d'Aubigny
  • Mephistopheles
  • Mercutio

M, continued

  • Mercy
  • Merricat Blackwood
  • Metzengerstein
  • Micajah Tate
  • Mignon Thibodeaux
  • Miles Coverdale
  • Millarca
  • Millicent
  • Millicent Redgrave
  • Millicent Rose Ashenden
  • Mina Harker
  • Minerva Slade
  • Miranda Aylward
  • Miss Agatha Pryor of Hollow End
  • Miss Amelia Evans
  • Miss Araminta Sallow
  • Miss Clack
  • Miss Flite
  • Miss Halloran of the Grange
  • Miss Havisham
  • Miss Jessel
  • Miss Lavender Crewe
  • Miss Marchmont
  • Miss Temple
  • Miss Wintringham
  • Mistress Hibbins
  • Monica Knollys
  • Monna Vanna
  • Monsieur St. Aubert
  • Monsieur Valdemar
  • Montague
  • Montresor
  • Mordecai Flint
  • Mordred
  • Morella
  • Morgause
  • Morgause Vane
  • Morticia
  • Mortimer
  • Mother St. Agatha
  • Mr. Abney
  • Mr. Brocklehurst
  • Mr. Flay
  • Mr. Hyde
  • Mr. Mortimer Pike the Elder
  • Mr. Wraxall
  • Mrs. Agatha Pym
  • Mrs. Catherick
  • Mrs. Clennam
  • Mrs. Constance Wray of Crowmarsh Priory
  • Mrs. Danvers
  • Mrs. Dudley
  • Mrs. Fairfax
  • Mrs. Grimsby
  • Mrs. Grose
  • Mrs. Lovett
  • Mrs. Mothersole
  • Mrs. Ravensworth
  • Mrs. Van Hopper
  • Muriel Saltmarsh

N: 13 names

  • Nannie Slagg
  • Narcissa
  • Narcisse Gautreaux
  • Nathanael
  • Nathaniel
  • Nell Crain
  • Nell Harrow
  • Nelly Dean
  • Neville Ashbourne
  • Niccolo Corvino
  • Nicodemus
  • Nouronihar
  • Nyarlathotep

O: 22 names

  • Obadiah
  • Octavia
  • Octavius Elphinstone
  • Odalie Duplessis
  • Odessa Ravenel
  • Odile de Montfaucon
  • Oenone
  • Olalla
  • Old Mrs. Winterbourne
  • Old Tobias of Fenwick Grange
  • Olimpia
  • Olive Ives
  • Olivia Crain
  • Ophelia
  • Ophelia Blackwood
  • Osric
  • Oswald Cranmer
  • Ottilie von Falkenstein
  • Ottoline
  • Ottoline Baskerville
  • Owen Warland
  • Ozias Midwinter

P: 46 names

  • Padre Ambrogio
  • Pandora Wycherley
  • Pansy Masham
  • Parson Hooper
  • Parthenia
  • Patience Underhill
  • Paul Emanuel
  • Paul Lessingham
  • Paulina de Bassompierre
  • Pearl Prynne
  • Pearl Redfern
  • Penelope Hawksmoor
  • Percival
  • Percival James Aldous
  • Perdita
  • Peregrine
  • Permelia Dabney
  • Persephone
  • Persephone Nightingale
  • Peter Quint
  • Petronella
  • Peyton Farquhar
  • Philip Ashley
  • Philippa Carfax
  • Philippe de Chagny
  • Philomena
  • Phineas Tolliver
  • Phoebe Cresswell
  • Phoebe Pyncheon
  • Pierre Gringoire
  • Politian
  • Poppy Leighton
  • Porphyria
  • Porphyro
  • Posy Graye
  • Preserved Babcock
  • Priscilla Mallory
  • Professor Baglioni
  • Professor Cornelius Lark
  • Professor Ignatius Webb
  • Professor Parkins
  • Professor Waldman
  • Proserpine
  • Prospero
  • Prudence
  • Pugsley Addams

Q: 7 names

  • Quasimodo
  • Queen Tera
  • Quentin Bellamy
  • Quentin Collins
  • Quentin Compson
  • Quilp
  • Quincey Morris

R: 49 names

  • Rachel Ashley
  • Rachel Verinder
  • Rafe
  • Randolph Carter
  • Randolph Severn
  • Ransom Pinckney
  • Raoul de Chagny
  • Raphael Sinclair
  • Rappaccini
  • Raymond de las Cisternas
  • Rebecca
  • Rebecca de Winter
  • Regan
  • Reginald Vandeleur
  • Remember Coggeshall
  • Renfield
  • Reverend Josiah Blythe
  • Reverend Obadiah Crake
  • Reverend Silas Crowe
  • Reverend Trask
  • Rhoda Fenn
  • Richard Mason
  • Rinaldo Marchetti
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • Robert Audley
  • Robert Wringhim
  • Roderick
  • Roderick Ayres
  • Roderick Usher
  • Roger Chillingworth
  • Romuald
  • Rosa Coldfield
  • Rosa Tyrrell
  • Rosalba Pellegrini
  • Rosalie Fane
  • Rosalind
  • Rosamond Oliver
  • Rosamund
  • Rosamund Wraye
  • Rosanna Spearman
  • Rose Kemble
  • Rose Velderkaust
  • Rosemary Nettleship
  • Rottcodd
  • Rowena
  • Ruby Godwin
  • Rufus Brandreth
  • Rupert
  • Rupert Algernon Sykes

S: 57 names

  • Sabina Lockhart
  • Safie
  • Sally Skellington
  • Savannah Rutledge
  • Schedoni
  • Sebastian
  • Sebastian Blackthorne
  • Selina Dawes
  • Selina Montrose
  • Septimus
  • Seraphina
  • Seraphina Grimshaw
  • Serena Courtenay
  • Sergeant Cuff
  • Serpentina
  • Sibyl Vane
  • Sidonia
  • Sidonie Valcourt
  • Sigismund
  • Signor Montoni
  • Signor Orazio Ferrante
  • Signora Giacinta Neri
  • Signora Laurentini
  • Silas
  • Silence
  • Sir Danvers Carew
  • Sir Hugo Baskerville
  • Sir Jocelyn Mortlock
  • Sir Leicester Dedlock
  • Sir Leoline
  • Sir Matthew Fell
  • Sir Percival Glyde
  • Sir Philip Harclay
  • Sir Roderick Vane of Blackmere Abbey
  • Sir Simon de Canterville
  • Sir Tobias Harrowby
  • Sister Agnes
  • Sister Annunziata
  • Sister Perpetua
  • Sister Scholastica
  • Solange Charbonneau
  • Solomon Pryce
  • Sophia Tresilian
  • Sophronia
  • Spalanzani
  • Spalatro
  • Spiridion Trepka
  • Spring-Heeled Jack
  • Squire Bartholomew Oakes
  • St. John Rivers
  • Steerpike
  • Submit Wheelock
  • Svengali
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Sycorax
  • Sylvester Musgrave
  • Sylvia Yarrow

T: 39 names

  • Tabitha Merrick
  • Tallulah Claiborne
  • Tamerlane
  • Tamora
  • Tancred
  • Tancredi Benedetti
  • Tarquin
  • Temperance
  • Thaddeus
  • Thankful
  • The Bleeding Nun
  • The Blessed Damozel
  • The Headless Horseman
  • The Honourable Cecilia Verney
  • The Lady of Shalott
  • Theobald Wycliffe
  • Theodora
  • Theodora Crain
  • Theodore
  • Theodosia Crowhurst
  • Theophilus
  • Thibault de Saint-Clair
  • Thisbe
  • Thomas Hutter
  • Thomas Sharpe
  • Thomas Sutpen
  • Thomasina Gaunt
  • Thrawn Janet
  • Tiberius Ludlow
  • Tirzah
  • Titus Blackburn
  • Titus Groan
  • Tobias
  • Tobias Ragg
  • Toby Dammit
  • Trippetta
  • Tristram Pemberton
  • Tulkinghorn
  • Tybalt

U: 8 names

  • Ulalume
  • Ulric
  • Ulrica
  • Ulysses Larkin
  • Uncle Silas
  • Undine
  • Uriah Winterton
  • Ursula Penhallow

V: 29 names

  • Valancourt
  • Valentine
  • Valeria Dacre
  • Valerian
  • Varney the Vampyre
  • Vashti
  • Vathek
  • Venetia
  • Verezzi
  • Verity
  • Vesta Lanier
  • Victor Frankenstein
  • Victor Van Dort
  • Victoria di Loredani
  • Victoria Everglot
  • Victoria Winters
  • Vincent
  • Vincentio di Vivaldi
  • Viola Delamere
  • Viola Pisani
  • Violet Ashgrove
  • Violetta
  • Virgil Hatcher
  • Virginia de Villa-Franca
  • Virginia Otis
  • Vittoria Castellani
  • Vivaldi
  • Vivienne
  • Vladimir

W: 16 names

  • Walter Hartright
  • Walter Thornfield
  • Wednesday
  • Widow Hester Gray
  • Wieland
  • Wilbur Whateley
  • Wilhelm Berlifitzing
  • Wilhelmina
  • Wilhelmina Voss
  • William Frankenstein
  • William Wilson
  • Winifred
  • Winifred Ada Colefax
  • Wolfgang
  • Wolfram Eisenhardt
  • Wolfstein

X: 1 name

  • Xanthe

Y: 5 names

  • Ygor
  • Yolande de Villiers
  • Yorick
  • Young Goodman Brown
  • Ysolde

Z: 9 names

  • Zachariah Holloway
  • Zanoni
  • Zastrozzi
  • Zebulon
  • Zenobia
  • Zephaniah
  • Zillah
  • Zipporah Hale
  • Zofloya