Dead Names, Death Names
Names that mean death or dead. Names associated with death or the dead.
 
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• MALE:

  1. AZRAEL: Variant of Hebrew Azriel, meaning "help of God." This is the name of the Angel of Death, who separates the soul from the body upon death. 

  2. MORT: English nickname for both Morton "settlement on the moor," and Mortimer "dead sea."

  3. MORTIMER: English surname transferred to forename use, itself from a Norman baronial name, meaning "dead sea" in Old French. Used as an English form of Irish/Gaelic Muiriartach "mariner, seaman."

  4. THAN: Nickname for Greek Thanatos, meaning "death."
  5. THANATOS: Greek myth name of a god of death, meaning "death."
  6. UKWTAKUN: "Starvation." Micmac legend name of a demigod whose howling signifies the approach of death and destruction. 

• FEMALE:

  1. DAFFODIL: "Asphodel." English name derived from the name of the flower, itself from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos. In Greek mythology, it is described as a pale yellow deathless kind of lily flower that overspreads the plains of Hades and is the favorite food of the dead. 

  2. LIBITINA: Roman myth name of a goddess of corpses, funerals, and the dead. Her name was synonymous with the word "death." 

  3. MORANA: Slavic myth name of a goddess of death and winter, meaning "death."

  4. VALDIS (Valdís): "Goddess of the dead." Scandinavian name, composed of the Old Norse elements valr "the dead" and dis "goddess." 

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