Scary Baby Names Inspired By Halloween

If you are due soon, you may be thinking of names if you haven't already picked one.  If you are needing a little inspiration you may want to think of some fun Fall inspired names I listed recently more than any of these scary names!  These names from babble.com are inspired by Halloween and the spooky, dark themed movies or stories they come from. 

Girls
Clarice - from 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs

Rosemary - from 1961 horror film Rosemary's Baby

Blair - from 1999's The Blair Witch Project

Carrie - from 1974's Carrie

Regan - from 1973's classic horror film, The Exorcist

Samara - from 2002's evil-video-tape horror film The Ring

Sidney - from 90's Scream movies

Esther - from 2009 thriller Orphan

Emily - from 2005's The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

Violet - from Lemony Snicket's spooky, entertaining YA novellas, A Series of Unfortunate Events

Wednesday - from the TV show The Addams Family

Raven - bleak baby name, made famous by the inventor of spooky tales, Edgar Allen Poe

Ophelia - from Shakespeare’s Hamlet



Boys

Jason - from the Friday the 13th films

Freddy - from Nightmare On Elm Street films

Norman -  from Hitchcock's 1960 classic, Psycho

Shaun - from a British film, Shaun of the Dead

Chucky - the doll from 1988's Child's Play

Hyde - from the classic 1886 novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Damien -  a central character from The Omen horror movie series

Edgar - Edgar Allan Poe was practically the original creepster

Todd - the demon barber Sweeney Todd, from the 1936 and 2007 films of the same name

Lestat - Anne Rice's character from Interview with the Vampire

Draco - Harry’s archrival at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series

Dante - Medieval poet Dante Alighieri takes readers on a terrifying trip to hell in his epic poem, The Divine Comedy

Michael - most famous serial killer in horror movie history, in nine of the 10 Halloween flicks.