Bewitching Halloween Names

Be still my heart! I love this list. So many frilly yet elegant names. There is a special place in my heart for Eglantine.

I love love love love Lavender! Really hoping that it doesn’t catch on.

Tabitha is one of my new favorite names! It’s just really appealed to me lately. I have a soft spot for the show Bewitched, too.

Sabrina is my favourite by a healthy margin, followed by Tabitha and Ravenna.

No witch connection, but Lilac beats Lavender for me.

I like a lot of these names. Winifred has been one of my favorites since I read Tuck Everlasting when I was younger, but my DH doesn’t like it.

I like Tabitha, and Lavender is lovely. It has the Roald Dahl association’s for me before the Harry Potter associations.

Ravenna is an interesting name. I think it has appeal. Too bad she was evil though.

Like Gillian as well. Lovely post!

Oooh this post is a treat! I’ll get to see Nessarose, Galinda, & Elphaba in Wicked this weekend!

Once Upon a Time has witches Regina & her mom Cora.

Waverly might be my favorite “witchy” name. (;

Actually, there were 4 sisters on Charmed. After Pru died Paige was found to be a long lost sister, and Paige is just as an awesome name as Pru, Pipe and Phoebe!

Love this list! My favourites are Tabitha, Winifred, Lavender & Piper (Prudence & Phoebe). I also really like Nessarose…

Love love Lavender!!!! Guilty pleasure!!!

I just met a two and a half year old named Winifred nn Winnie! It was so cute on a little girl. My favorite on the list is Lavender, but I’m afraid it would be shortened to Lav (like lavatory); not so cute…

We named our daughter Tabitha! I love that she has a special name that you don’t hear everyday. At first I was worried about the association with Bewitched, but it’s been a nonissue. Plus, I don’t think her generation will know the show.

I love this list its so new and original compaired to other holloween name lists I’ve seen.

Nellarose would be a sweet alternative to Nessarose, and solves the problem of too many s’s.

All these names have the makings of great, inclusive sib-sets, my favorite being:

Phoebe, Tabitha, Sabrina & Lavender!

I love that you included Nessarose!
If my name wasn’t Tressa, I would totally consider it.

Don’t forget about all those wonderful Once Upon a Time names too- Snow/Mary Margaret, Cora, Jefferson etc…

I never knew it was Glinda and not Glenda.

The best witches, are, however, forever Gytha and Esmerelda, aka Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax from Discworld.

Nanny Ogg would so give Glinda a clip around the ear ‘ole she’d never forget. And probably steal her sparkly dress.

[...] Halloween, what could be more bewitching than the names of witches? And the good thing is that they’re not all — the baby names or the witches — [...]

[...] Halloween, what could be more bewitching than the names of witches? And the good thing is that they’re not all — the baby names or the witches — [...]

So glad someone mentioned the Discworld Witches but I think one should add Magrat (Ma-grat), Agnes, and Tiffany. (There are of course more but these are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Also there are really four Halliwell/Matthews sisters. Prudence/Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige. (They forgot little half sister Paige from the list).

If I ever happen to have twin girls on Halloween, they’ll totally be Sabrina and Tabitha, so cute. Who knew there were so many great witch names? I hope there’s a similar boys list coming!

We gave our daughter a witch name that wasn’t on this list: Rain (Elphaba’s granddaugher who features prominently in the fourth Wicked book). Well she was 2/3 named after the character and 1/3 because we liked the sound of it and the idea of referring to a natural phenomenon in the name.