Dark
English word name
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Dark Origin and Meaning
The name Dark is a boy's name meaning "without light".
Grimes and Elon Musk put this name on the map in 2022, when they revealed their daughter's name was Exa Dark Sideræl. Until that point, Dark had not been recorded as a given name, although it resembles more established names such as Mark and Lark.
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