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Baby names that mean darkness: Beautiful, powerful and unusual baby names that mean darkness.
The meaning of the word Érebos (Ἔρεβος) is "darkness" or "gloom", referring to that of the Underworld. [3] It derives from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ-os-("darkness"), and is cognate with the Sanskrit rájas ("dark (lower) air, dust"), the Armenian erek ("evening"), the Gothic riqis, and the Old Norse røkkr ("dark, dust").
Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon; Nyx, goddess and personification of the night; Selene, Titaness goddess and personification of the moon
Kek is the deification of the concept of primordial darkness [1] in the ancient Egyptian Ogdoad cosmogony of Hermopolis. The Ogdoad consisted of four pairs of deities, four male gods paired with their female counterparts. Kek's female counterpart was Kauket.
Nyxie - Variation of the Greek name Nyx, meaning "night" or "darkness"—very powerful! 143. Octavia - Warrior Latin name meaning "the eighth," powerful position.
Ciarán (Irish spelling) or Ciaran (Scottish Gaelic spelling) [2] [3] is a traditionally male given name of Irish origin. It means "little dark one" [4] or "little dark-haired one", produced by appending a diminutive suffix to ciar ("black", "dark"). [5] It is the masculine version of the name Ciara.
Melanie is a feminine given name derived from the Greek μελανία (melania), "blackness" [1] and that from μέλας (melas), meaning "dark". [2] Borne in its Latin form by two saints, Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger, [3] the name was introduced to England by the Normans in its French form Melanie.
According to Hesiod, he was the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the brother of Hemera (Day). [2] In Orphic cosmogony Aether was the offspring of Chronos (Time), and the brother of Chaos and Erebus.