Halloween?

[orbg.livejournal.com]

My baby's going to be born sometime near Halloween (EDD is Oct. 26th) and as Halloween is my favorite holiday, I'm considering making the middle name something related to the holiday. All I've found online are lists of villains from horror movies, which isn't really what I'm looking for, as I despise horror movies.
Anyway...any names you know of, throw them out-we still don't know if it's a boy or girl, so both are welcome! Thanks.

Comments

[lindiohead.livejournal.com]

Haha the only obvious I can think of are Jack and Sally. :P

[orbg.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously considering Jack already!

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

Damien seems Halloween-ish.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Yeah but that is the horror movie thing I'm not too into. It's hard to find non-movie names-all I can find is Freddy, Damien, Chucky, etc.

[blue-suspenders.livejournal.com]

Lucifer?

Haha, maybe that's kind of a bad association.

[unbakedbrownie.livejournal.com]

Oct. 26th is my older younger brothers birthday and he DID look like Chucky as a baby! o_o

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Oooh scary! I hate seeing pictures of that doll, it creeps me out so much.

[luxury-bus.livejournal.com]

Throwing some random ones out here ;)

Holly -- sort of sounds like Halloween
Mary -- Bloody Mary, anyone?
Autumn -- time of year

Merlin -- character
Casper -- character
Regan -- character

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Haha my name is Autumn, I was born Oct 1

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Regan -- character

hahahahaha, okay so when I first read this comment I thought you meant the president. Because he's scary, right? hahahahahaha.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

Mary and Holly sound more like Christmas names.

[midnightquarter.livejournal.com]

You could always browse Goth themed names, like Belladonna, Rasputina or Phoenix.

There's a fairly large list at Alternative baby names (http://www.alternativebabynames.com/index.php?goto=gothic). Name Nerds (http://www.namenerds.com/uucn/goth.html) have a pretty large list too.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Ooh thank you!

Belladonna

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

I'm not the OP, but I love this idea. <3

[emtotherescuee.livejournal.com]

I don't think Phoenix is Goth-themed at all. To me, it sounds light and airy, but full of meaning.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Ooh I agree with Raven, that's really pretty!

[jojodancer77.livejournal.com]

Salem?

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Aw, I was born October 4th so Halloween was always a favorite of mine (even though technically it's closer to my sister's birthday- November 8th).

The first thing I thought of was Sabrina (The Teenage Witch, a favorite comic and show of mine back in the day)... and there's also Wendy the good little witch a la Casper the ghost cartoons. Other witches: Winifred, Sarah & Mary (the Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus) and Aggie, Gwen, & Marnie (Halloweentown). Those are about the tamest Halloween references I've got.

For boys, I can't think of any really good ideas, other than maybe naming your kid Firefighter or Goblin or Spiderman.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

"Tis firm!!" haha I love Hocus Pocus and I always say that line at random times, even if it has no relavence (let's blame it on the Tourette's ;-) )

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Haha I love that movie.

[sophie-louise89.livejournal.com]

lol off the subject but my birthday is Nov 8th aswell :)

[jazbot.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I have the same bday as your sister =)

[jazbot.livejournal.com]

and sophie! I presume you were born 89 by your username, so we're exactly the same age, which makes me smile.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

The first thing that I thought of was to pick a name that was from books/movies like Dracula and Frankenstein, since vampires and monsters are common/typical costumes. The names themselves are names that you could have gotten from anywhere, rather than being a name everyone automatically associates with those characters, but could have additional meaning for you because of where they're from.

Some of the names I thought of:

Mina (from Wilhelmina)
Lucy

Jonathan
Quincey
Arthur
Robert
Victor

If you have a book/movie that you like better that could be associated with Halloween costumes, maybe you can take one of the names from that, and not necessarily the main character.

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Annwn

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

I like the suggestion of Salem. I think as a middle name it could work for either gender, and I actually kind of like it. I think, paired with the right first name, it could really work.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Me too, thanks!

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Icabod Crane is the Sleepy Hollow guy.

[raisintree.livejournal.com]

Or rather Ichabod. ;-)

[yourcrowbar.livejournal.com]

your username is today's date! woo!

sorry i thought that was interesting

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Samhain (pron. sow-in) it is the Celtic name for the end of the harvest season aka around Halloween and is the original and Pagan name for halloween.

[djador.livejournal.com]

I have a cousin born on October 31st named Candace. nn...Candy. Super lame? Yes.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

lol, yeah, that is pretty bad.

[orbg.livejournal.com]

I always loved Luna, until HP came out-I'm afraid people will think it's because of Luna Lovegood, and call her Loony =(

[lindiohead.livejournal.com]

Yeah I can see kids calling her Looney. Luna Lovegood was one of my favorite characters! :P

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

How about naming the baby based on the Name Day it's born on? Here are some for around the end of October (the numbers are the dates):
21 Ursula
21 Wesley
21 Wendell
21 Tucker
21 Craig
21 Wendy
22 Mellon
23 Allucio
24 Marcy
24 Marcus
24 Marcos
24 Felix
24 Marcia
24 Marco
25 Crispin
25 Tabitha
26 Alfredo
26 Bean
26 Demetrius
26 Alf
26 Alfonso
26 Alfred
26 Evan
26 Everett
28 Simona
28 Simone
28 Simon
28 Judy
28 Judith
28 Judie
28 Judi
28 Simonne
28 Goldie
28 Godwin
28 Jude
31 Wolfgang
31 Quentin

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Thanks, good ideas!

[opal-kitten.livejournal.com]

I know that it is a stretch, but what about Hal for a boys name?(Hal- Halloween)

I also like the suggestion of Crow or Salem.

[mrsbenglish.livejournal.com]

elvira :)

[lolzabeth.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest Salem but I got beaten to it!

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Damn, I was going to suggest Autumn. Um... Leif? It sounds like 'leaf', haha.

Halloweeny Names

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Hazel!

I love the idea of using witchy names from history. All I can think of at the moment are Morgaine or Morgana from Arthurian legends, but I know there are so many good ones out there. There's something dark, interesting, and underrated about them-- but of course it would depend on your orientation and daring.

[bobblebot.livejournal.com]

have you seen these?
http://www.babynames.com/Names/spooky-names.php

[orbg.livejournal.com]

Ty!

[jyl-mac.livejournal.com]

I'm bummed about the whole "devil" association (not that it would stop me) because I love the name Damien.

I also like Autumn.

Someone mentioned Opal (being the Oct birthstone), love that.