Gothic last names carry something the rest of naming culture rarely touches: genuine darkness, atmospheric weight, and a sense that history left its mark in blood and stone. Whether you’re building a character for a novel, choosing a pen name, or just fascinated by the surnames that feel like they belong in candlelit manor houses and fog-draped churchyards, gothic last names are a category all their own.<\/p>\n
What makes a surname gothic? It’s a combination of things: origins in death, night, or shadow; connections to old European folklore and the supernatural; sounds that are hard-edged or vowel-heavy in an unsettling way. and histories tied to places, professions, or traits that carry a chill. The names below are real surnames borne by real people, and every one of them earns its place on this list.<\/p>\n
These gothic last names derive directly from words meaning dark, black, night, or shadow across multiple languages. They’re the core of the gothic surname tradition.<\/p>\n
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An English habitational surname meaning “dark forest,” from Old English blaec<\/em> (black) and wudu<\/em> (wood). It conjures exactly what it promises: a forest you do not walk through alone at night. Algernon Blackwood, the British horror writer, made it legendary in the genre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A rare English surname combining “dark” with the Old English mor<\/em>meaning bleak open land or marshland. The result is a name that feels geographically desolate and atmospheric in equal measure.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Old English in origin, from nihtegale<\/em>literally “night singer.” While Florence Nightingale made it famous in a compassionate context, the name’s core is firmly nocturnal, and there’s something melancholy in a bird that only sings after dark.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French surname meaning simply “black.” Rare as a family name, but documented, and it carries all the weight of its meaning without ornamentation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A medieval English and Scandinavian surname derived from the Old Norse n\u00f3tt<\/em>meaning “night.” Sparse, sharp, and very old, it’s one of the most direct gothic last names in the English-speaking tradition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname derived from the twilight hour, the liminal moment between day and night. Documented as a rare family name, it belongs to the category of surnames that feel more like a portent than an identifier.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Old French more<\/em>meaning “dark-skinned” or “swarthy,” and used across medieval Europe as a descriptive surname. The sound is soft, but the meaning is all shadow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname meaning “black.” It’s one of the most common surnames in the German-speaking world, but its meaning is unmistakably dark, and in a gothic context, it lands with real weight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Scottish surname from the Gaelic dun<\/em> (dark, dull-colored) and mor<\/em> (great). A great darkness. It reads like the name of a cursed estate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French surname meaning “dark-complexioned,” from Old French more<\/em>. H.G. Wells sealed its gothic credentials with The Island of Doctor Moreau<\/em>but the name long predates that association.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some gothic last names earn their darkness through a direct connection to mortality, burial, and the rituals surrounding death.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English occupational or habitational surname referring to burial grounds, from Old English graef<\/em>. The poet Robert Graves carried it into literary history, and it has never shaken its funereal resonance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From the Old French and Latin mort<\/em>meaning “death.” Used as a given name and a surname across France and England since the medieval period. Blunt, final, and entirely gothic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname from a place name meaning “moor valley,” but folk association with mort<\/em> (death) has given it a darker reputation. The sound alone earns its place here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname that is a variant of Tomlin, a diminutive of Thomas, but has been phonetically shaped by centuries of use near the word “tomb.” Documented as a real family name across the English Midlands.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from Old English fana<\/em>a banner or weathervane. In gothic tradition, the weathervane atop a crumbling house is an icon of decay and foreboding, and this surname carries that image naturally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A rare French surname derived from ossuaire<\/em>an ossuary or bone repository. It is documented as a family name in old French parish records, and few surnames carry a more direct connection to the gothic tradition of sacred death spaces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname meaning “one who lives by a palisade or fence,” but it has long been associated phonetically with “pallor” and the pale complexion of death. Barbara Pallister appears in historical parish records, and the name has a genuinely chilling sound profile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Old French bonaire<\/em>meaning gentle or courteous. In gothic fiction and naming, the contrast between a pleasant meaning and a bone-adjacent sound is part of the appeal. It is a very real and widespread surname with a long history.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “enclosure near the ash trees.” Ash trees have deep connections to death and the underworld across Norse and Celtic mythology, making this surname gothically charged despite its pastoral origins.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname of disputed origin, possibly from a place name in Yorkshire or from a word meaning “to demand.” Wes Craven made it a horror surname for the ages, but it was dark-sounding long before cinema.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Habitational surnames tied to moors, cliffs, marshes, and ruins are among the most atmospheric gothic last names in existence. These are places where something could go very wrong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Straightforwardly from the Old English mor<\/em>bleak open marshland. A moor in English culture is a landscape of isolation, danger, and gothic atmosphere, from the setting of Wuthering Heights<\/em> to the Hound of the Baskervilles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English and Scottish surname from the Gaelic creag<\/em>meaning a rocky cliff or outcropping. Documented as a rare family name, it’s raw and geologically forbidding.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname derived from someone who lived in or near a hollow, a sunken valley or depression in the land. Sleepy Hollow made this word iconic in American gothic tradition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from Old English fenn<\/em>marshy ground. Fens are cold, waterlogged, and historically associated with will-o’-the-wisps and bodies preserved for centuries in peat. As a surname, it’s stark and elemental.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A compound English habitational surname combining “moor” and “field,” amplifying the desolate landscape association. Documented in English records from the late medieval period.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “the homestead or enclosure of the raven.” Ravens are birds of death, prophecy, and ill omen across multiple cultures, and this surname packages all of that into a single word.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Old English dun<\/em> (dark, dull-colored hill) and stan<\/em> (stone). A dark stone. Saint Dunstan was famous for his encounters with the devil, which gives this surname a gothic ecclesiastical dimension beyond its etymology.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “settlement by the cliff.” Cliffs in gothic fiction are places of danger, dramatic death, and landscape sublime. The name is common but carries that edge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A rare but documented English compound surname combining storm and crow, both symbols of ill omen and approaching disaster. It exists in the historical record and reads like a name invented for gothic fiction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “cold spring” or “cold stream.” Cold water in gothic tradition means death and the underworld, and this surname has a spare, wintry quality that suits the aesthetic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some gothic last names have direct roots in the language of the occult, the supernatural, and the fearful unknown.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname from O Cruadhlaoich<\/em>meaning “descendant of the hard hero.” Aleister Crowley turned it into one of the most famous occult surnames in history. The association is now inseparable from the name itself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Norman French habitational surname meaning “bad passage” or “difficult crossing,” from mal<\/em> (bad) and pas<\/em> (step, passage). It was given to dangerous fords and treacherous paths. In a gothic context, it sounds like a warning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname derived from Old English waerloga<\/em>meaning “oath-breaker” or “deceiver,” the same root that gave us the word “warlock” for a male witch. It is documented as a rare family name and is as gothic as a surname can get.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An anglicized surname variant documented in American and British records, from the Latin spectrum<\/em>an apparition or ghost. The spelling distinguishes it from the common noun while keeping every bit of its spectral meaning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from Old English sceadu<\/em>meaning shadow or shade. Documented as a rare family name, it is the most direct possible gothic surname, carrying both the literal meaning of shadow and the metaphorical sense of a ghost.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A surname derived from the Latin and Greek magus<\/em>a sorcerer or wise man of occult knowledge. Documented as a rare family name in European records, it has the gravity of ancient magical tradition behind it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French surname meaning “of the dark, murky one” or more literally “of the brown one,” from de<\/em> and brun<\/em> (dark, brown). Timothy Demonbreun was a historical fur trader associated with early Nashville, Tennessee. The name sounds far more gothic than its origins warrant, which is part of its charm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A rare French-origin surname derived from nocturne<\/em>a musical piece of the night or nocturnal spirit. Documented in French records as a family name, it is one of the most musically gothic surnames in existence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A surname from the Latin vesper<\/em>evening or the evening star. As a family name it appears across European records, and it carries the atmospheric weight of the last light before darkness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname meaning “fist,” but overwhelmingly associated with the legendary scholar who sold his soul to the devil. Johann Georg Faust was a historical figure in 16th-century Germany. The name is gothic by centuries of cultural accretion.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are surnames made famous or darkened by their appearance in foundational gothic texts, folklore, and the literary tradition that defined the genre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English occupational surname for a doorkeeper or usher, from Old French ussier<\/em>. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” made this one of the most recognizably gothic surnames in American literature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “red cliff.” Ann Radcliffe was the defining novelist of gothic fiction in the 18th century, and the name carries her genre’s entire atmosphere in its syllables.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “clearing on a slope.” Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein<\/em> and essentially invented the science-gothic genre. Percy Bysshe Shelley brought Romantic darkness to poetry. The surname belongs to the gothic canon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English occupational surname for someone who tended a fire or furnace. Bram Stoker wrote Dracula<\/em> and changed the gothic tradition permanently. The surname now carries vampiric association whether its bearer likes it or not.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French and Irish surname derived from the given name Maturinus. Charles Robert Maturin wrote Melmoth the Wanderer<\/em>one of the darkest gothic novels of the 19th century. The name has a melodic, slightly sinister quality that suits the genre.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “pool by the wall.” Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto<\/em>the novel that launched the entire gothic literary tradition in 1764. The name deserves its place in any gothic list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Italian surname meaning “son of Polidoro,” from the Greek polydoros<\/em>“bearing many gifts.” John William Polidori wrote “The Vampyre,” the first modern vampire story in English. The surname is melodic, Italian, and thoroughly gothic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Norman French habitational surname. Thomas De Quincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater<\/em>one of the defining texts of dark Romantic prose. The aristocratic prefix gives it gothic weight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Animals have always carried gothic symbolism, and surnames rooted in wolves, ravens, bats, and serpents form a distinct cluster of gothic last names.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from the Old Norse hrafn<\/em> or Old English hraefn<\/em>meaning raven. The bird is universally associated with death, prophecy, and dark omens. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent that association. he inherited centuries of it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “the wood of the raven.” Sir Walter Scott used it as the surname of his brooding gothic hero Edgar Ravenswood in The Bride of Lammermoor<\/em>. It is one of the most atmospheric gothic last names in the literary tradition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Germanic surname from Old High German wolf<\/em>. Wolves in gothic tradition are not just animals. they are shapeshifters, familiars, and the form the werewolf takes. The surname is common across Germany, England, and Ashkenazi Jewish communities.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from the Old High German compound wolf<\/em> (wolf) and hramn<\/em> (raven). A wolf-raven. Two gothic symbols in one name, combined in a single medieval German compound.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Latin surname from corvus<\/em>meaning raven or crow. Documented as a family name in Italian and Latin European records, it is one of the most directly gothic surnames in the Latin tradition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from the Old Norse draki<\/em> or Old English draca<\/em>meaning dragon. It also has associations with the male duck, but the dragon meaning dominates the gothic imagination.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A rare English surname derived from the serpent, with documented use as a family name in historical English records. The serpent’s associations with Eden, evil, and ancient occult tradition make it deeply gothic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French and English surname from Old French corbeau<\/em>meaning crow or raven. A softer-sounding cousin to Corvus, but the meaning is identical and the gothic resonance is strong.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Germanic surname from gris<\/em> (grey, or pig) and wald<\/em> (forest). The grey forest. It appeared in early American records and carries a distinctly bleak, autumnal quality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from the poisonous plant, documented as a rare family name. Deadly nightshade is one of gothic botany’s most iconic plants, associated with witchcraft, poison, and sinister beauty.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gothic literature was obsessed with crumbling aristocracy, and the surnames of old European noble families carry that atmosphere naturally.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English surname from the blackthorn tree, associated with dark magic, ill omen, and the wood used to make a shillelagh. Documented as a rare family name, it has the thorned quality of true gothic naming.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Spanish surname meaning “son of Valdo,” from a Germanic root meaning “rule” or “power.” The val<\/em> prefix appears in countless gothic and dark fantasy contexts, and this is a real, widespread surname with that sonic quality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German-origin compound surname with the aristocratic von<\/em> prefix and Drak<\/em>a variant of dragon. Documented in Central European records, the aristocratic dragon name is a gothic archetype.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Italian and Monegasque surname from the Germanic grim<\/em> (fierce, masked) and ald<\/em> (old, noble). The ruling family of Monaco bears it, but the root meaning is darkly compelling: the ancient fierce one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Norman French habitational surname from morte mer<\/em>“dead sea” or “still water.” The Mortimer family was one of the most powerful baronial dynasties in medieval England, and the name has never lost its deathly undertone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An English habitational surname meaning “dark moor.” Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow made it a rock surname, but the gothic landscape meaning predates him by centuries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Norman French surname from the Germanic grim<\/em> (fierce, masked) and wald<\/em> (rule). Documented in Norman and English medieval records, it sounds like it belongs in a chronicle of dark deeds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A French and English surname from the heraldic term for black. In European heraldry, sable is the color of mourning and mystery. As a family name, it is documented and carries the full weight of its heraldic meaning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Norman French habitational surname from \u00c9vreux in Normandy. The Devereux family had a famously turbulent history in English noble circles, and the name has a dark, courtly sound that suits the gothic aristocratic tradition perfectly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Old Norse and Old High German are languages built for gothic naming. Their consonant clusters, compound structures, and warrior-and-fate vocabulary produce surnames with natural darkness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from Old High German grim<\/em>meaning fierce, savage, or masked. The Brothers Grimm collected the fairy tales that fed the gothic imagination of two centuries. The name means exactly what it sounds like it means.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from Schreck<\/em>meaning fright or terror. Max Schreck played the original Count Orlok in Nosferatu<\/em>and his surname was almost certainly part of why the casting was so effective.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname meaning “grey.” Grey is the color of fog, ash, and the in-between states that gothic aesthetics prize: not black, not white, but the uncertain space where horror lives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from dunkel<\/em>meaning dark or obscure. Straightforward, blunt, and thoroughly gothic in its directness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname meaning “raven,” the Germanic counterpart to Raven and Corbin. Clean, sharp, and very old, it connects to the raven’s full symbolic weight in Germanic and Norse tradition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname meaning “death’s head” or skull. Documented as a rare family name in German records, it is one of the most directly gothic surnames in any language.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname meaning “night drive” or “driven by night,” from Nacht<\/em> (night) and treiben<\/em> (to drive). Documented in German-American records, it has the compound darkness of the best gothic Germanic surnames.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German habitational surname meaning “moat” or “ditch,” from graben<\/em>to dig. Moats surround castles. ditches are where things are buried. Architecturally and etymologically gothic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from finster<\/em>meaning dark, gloomy, or sinister. It is one of the most directly applicable gothic last names in the German language, meaning essentially what “sinister” means in English.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A German surname from Leiche<\/em> (corpse) and Mann<\/em> (man). Documented as a family name in German records, it is as direct in its morbidity as any surname in this list.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Celtic languages, particularly Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic, produced surnames steeped in the dark, mythological, and otherworldly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname from O Dubhghaill<\/em>meaning “descendant of the dark stranger.” Arthur Conan Doyle brought it to literary fame, but the meaning is old and genuinely dark: the dark foreigner, the unknown arrival.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname meaning “black” or “dark.” It appears in many Irish names as a prefix (Dubhgall, Dubhshl\u00e1ine), but it also stands alone as a family name and is as stark and direct as gothic naming gets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname from O Dubhthaigh<\/em>meaning “descendant of the dark one.” Common as an Irish family name, but the dark meaning is genuine and old.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname derived from the war goddess Morrigan, associated with fate, death, and crows. Documented as a family name in Irish records, it carries the full supernatural weight of one of Celtic mythology’s most fearsome figures.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Scottish habitational surname from Gaelic dun<\/em> (fort) and barr<\/em> (summit, top). The dark fort on the summit. A Scottish castle name with real gothic weight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Scottish and English surname from a river name rooted in Brythonic Celtic, possibly meaning “hard water” or “violent water.” Rivers in Celtic tradition are liminal, dangerous boundaries between worlds.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Scottish surname meaning “son of the brier,” from the thorned, tangled wild rose. Sir Walter Scott used it in Old Mortality<\/em>and it has a wild, thorned quality that suits gothic highland landscapes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname from O Eidirsceol<\/h3>\n meaning “descendant of the intermediary” or “go-between.” The liminal role, the one who stands between worlds, is a deeply gothic archetype.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An Irish surname from the province of Meath, whose name derives from Old Irish mide<\/em>“middle.” As a surname, it appears in Irish records and carries the atmospheric weight of Ireland’s most ancient burial landscape, including Newgrange and the Hill of Tara.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you’re choosing a gothic last name for a character, a pen name, or simply exploring the category, the first question to ask is what kind of darkness you want to project. There is a difference between a name rooted in landscape gothic (Moor, Dunmore, Ravenswood), one rooted in death (Mort, Graves, Leichmann), and one rooted in the supernatural (Crowley, Specter, Warlock). Each cluster creates a different atmosphere, and layering your choice with the right first name will sharpen or soften the effect considerably.<\/p>\n Sound matters as much as meaning. Germanic and Norse surnames tend to be hard-edged and blunt, while French and Italian gothic last names are more melodic but no less dark. If you want dread without drama, a short Germanic choice like Grimm or Nott lands harder than a six-syllable compound. If you want aristocratic gothic menace, Mortimer, Devereux, or Polidori give you that Continental grandeur.<\/p>\n For character naming specifically, consider whether the gothic surname should announce itself or operate subtly. A character named Warlock or Specter announces their gothic function immediately. A character named Ashworth or Doyle carries the darkness in their etymology, available to readers who know it and invisible to those who don’t. Both strategies are valid. choose based on how much you want the name to work as symbolism versus as a naturalistic identifier.<\/p>\n Finally, if the name is for real-world use as a pen name or professional name, lean toward surnames that are gothic in origin but don’t read as obviously constructed: Blackwood, Grimm, Raven, Shelley, or Corvus all carry genuine darkness without sounding like stage names. The most effective gothic last names are the ones that feel like they could be real, because the best of them are.<\/p>\n Gothic naming has always been about the feeling that history left something unresolved. The best gothic last names carry that sense in their roots: old words for dark places, old titles for dark acts, and old fears given a family’s face. Any of the names above can do that work for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gothic last names carry something the rest of naming culture rarely touches: genuine darkness, atmospheric weight, and a sense that history left its mark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"lfe_reviewer":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,151],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baby-name-lists","tag-baby-name-lists","tag-gothic-last-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponly.com\/names\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Darkmore<\/h3>\n
Nightingale<\/h3>\n
Noir<\/h3>\n
Nott<\/h3>\n
Dusk<\/h3>\n
Morel<\/h3>\n
Schwarz<\/h3>\n
Dunmore<\/h3>\n
Moreau<\/h3>\n
Surnames Connected to Death and the Grave<\/h2>\n
Graves<\/h3>\n
Mort<\/h3>\n
Morden<\/h3>\n
Tomblin<\/h3>\n
Vane<\/h3>\n
Ossuaire<\/h3>\n
Pallister<\/h3>\n
Bonner<\/h3>\n
Ashworth<\/h3>\n
Craven<\/h3>\n
Surnames from Sinister Places and Landscapes<\/h2>\n
Moor<\/h3>\n
Crag<\/h3>\n
Hollow<\/h3>\n
Fen<\/h3>\n
Moorfield<\/h3>\n
Ravenscroft<\/h3>\n
Dunstan<\/h3>\n
Clifton<\/h3>\n
Stormcrow<\/h3>\n
Coldwell<\/h3>\n
Surnames Tied to the Supernatural and the Occult<\/h2>\n
Crowley<\/h3>\n
Malpas<\/h3>\n
Warlock<\/h3>\n
Specter<\/h3>\n
Shade<\/h3>\n
Magus<\/h3>\n
Demonbreun<\/h3>\n
Nocturne<\/h3>\n
Vesper<\/h3>\n
Faust<\/h3>\n
Gothic Last Names from Gothic and Medieval Literature<\/h2>\n
Usher<\/h3>\n
Radcliffe<\/h3>\n
Shelley<\/h3>\n
Stoker<\/h3>\n
Maturin<\/h3>\n
Walpole<\/h3>\n
Polidori<\/h3>\n
De Quincey<\/h3>\n
Surnames Meaning Wolf, Raven, and Creatures of the Dark<\/h2>\n
Raven<\/h3>\n
Ravenswood<\/h3>\n
Wolf<\/h3>\n
Wolfram<\/h3>\n
Corvus<\/h3>\n
Drake<\/h3>\n
Serpentine<\/h3>\n
Corbin<\/h3>\n
Griswold<\/h3>\n
Nightshade<\/h3>\n
Aristocratic and Continental Gothic Surnames<\/h2>\n
Blackthorn<\/h3>\n
Valdez<\/h3>\n
Von Drak<\/h3>\n
Grimaldi<\/h3>\n
Mortimer<\/h3>\n
Blackmore<\/h3>\n
Grimoult<\/h3>\n
Sable<\/h3>\n
Devereux<\/h3>\n
Gothic Surnames with Germanic and Norse Roots<\/h2>\n
Grimm<\/h3>\n
Schreck<\/h3>\n
Grau<\/h3>\n
Dunkle<\/h3>\n
Rabe<\/h3>\n
Totenkopf<\/h3>\n
Nachtrieb<\/h3>\n
Graben<\/h3>\n
Finster<\/h3>\n
Leichmann<\/h3>\n
Gothic Last Names from Celtic Traditions<\/h2>\n
Doyle<\/h3>\n
Dubh<\/h3>\n
Duffy<\/h3>\n
Morrigan<\/h3>\n
Dunbar<\/h3>\n
Calder<\/h3>\n
MacBriar<\/h3>\n
Driscoll<\/h3>\n
Meath<\/h3>\n
How to Choose the Right Gothic Last Name<\/h2>\n