The title says it all.
What girls names would you consider hauntingly Beautiful?
[name_m]How[/name_m] you describe a name as hauntingly beautiful?
Thanks.
For me the only name that came to mind was [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f], not sure if this is what you had in mind. I guess because I think it’s sounds very grand and beautiful, but also gothic and has such tragic literary connotations.
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]! I love it because it sounds like something someone from royal a family would be named.
[name_f]Evangeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f]
[name_f]Gwendolyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Leonora[/name_f]
[name_f]Imogen[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabeth[/name_f]
[name_f]Elspeth[/name_f]
Briseis
Hauntingly beautiful to me is something reminiscent of a damsel in distress or a heart broken princess from mid evil times
I think it is going to mean different things to different people. [name_f]Isobel[/name_f] is hauntingly beautiful to me but only because of the song [name_f]Isobel[/name_f] by [name_f]Dido[/name_f].
Others for me are:
[name_f]Aisling[/name_f]
[name_f]Ianthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Adia[/name_f] - [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] MacLachlan song
[name_f]Elowen[/name_f]
Hylonome
[name_f]Jezebel[/name_f]
[name_f]Jocasta[/name_f]
[name_f]Lethe[/name_f]
[name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]
[name_f]Anais[/name_f]
[name_f]Aida[/name_f]
[name_f]Bianca[/name_f]
[name_f]Hagar[/name_f]
[name_f]Niobe[/name_f]
[name_f]Zora[/name_f]
[name_f]Sula[/name_f]
When I think of “hauntingly beautiful” I think of what a girl in a ghost story might have been named. Here are some names that come to mind:
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Morgana[/name_f]
[name_f]Vanessa[/name_f]
[name_f]Mary[/name_f]
[name_f]Elvira[/name_f]
[name_u]Raven[/name_u]
[name_f]Justine[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f]
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] / [name_f]Leanor[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabel[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosemary[/name_f]
[name_f]Violet[/name_f] / [name_f]Violette[/name_f] / [name_f]Violetta[/name_f]
[name_f]Viola[/name_f]
I know some of those are pretty unusual but they all sound hauntingly beautiful to me. 
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
SO beautiful, but so mournful
[name_f]Violet[/name_f] and [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] of course.
Names I wouldn’t use but are so stunning to me are [name_f]Valentina[/name_f], [name_f]Anastasia[/name_f], [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f], and [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f].
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f], [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f], [name_f]Deirdre[/name_f]
I think of tragic heroines or princesses, and [name_f]Deirdre[/name_f] in particular has a haunting meaning and sounds reminisce of ‘tears’ to me.
Hauntingly beautiful? Beautiful and complex in sound, forever tied to tragedy or having a melancholy or ethereal quality. I think of tragic heroes/heroines from mythology and literature, biblical figures, martyrs, “fallen” characters…
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
[name_f]Antigone[/name_f]
[name_f]Lenore[/name_f]
[name_f]Annabel[/name_f] [name_u]Lee[/name_u]
[name_f]Melisandre[/name_f]
[name_f]Dolores[/name_f]
[name_f]Mara[/name_f]
[name_f]Magdalene[/name_f]
[name_f]Evanthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
Arachne
[name_f]Valeria[/name_f]
Belladonna
[name_u]November[/name_u]
[name_f]Malia[/name_f]
[name_u]Eden[/name_u]
Llorona
[name_f]Lorena[/name_f]
[name_f]Agnes[/name_f]
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
[name_u]Tristan[/name_u]
[name_m]Antony[/name_m]
[name_m]Sebastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Julian[/name_m]
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_m]Narcissus[/name_m]
[name_m]Sisyphus[/name_m]
Andronicus
[name_m]Icarus[/name_m]
[name_m]Lucifer[/name_m]
[name_m]Judas[/name_m]
[name_m]Raphael[/name_m]
[name_m]Valerian[/name_m]
Hmm, I’d say hauntingly beautiful for me is usually when I can imagine a girl alone in a house/mansion/anywhere that has long been abandoned, almost like a lingering memory. Or somewhere where she is surrounded only by nature, like a forest, or on the edge of a stormy sea; mysterious and enigmatic. Any name I can imagine a girl like that having, is hauntingly beautiful in my opinion. I haven’t a clue if any of that makes sense, but here are some that really give me that image:
[name_f]Pandora[/name_f]
[name_f]Morgana[/name_f]
Rowenna
[name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Mairead[/name_f]
[name_f]Lillith[/name_f]
[name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f]
Belladonna
Hauntingly beautiful would be a tragic heroine, a gothic beauty, or a beauty that is unusual and maybe not immediately obvious but leaves you thinking about it for a long time afterwards.
[name_f]Estella[/name_f]/[name_f]Estrella[/name_f], [name_f]Marcheline[/name_f], [name_f]Carlotta[/name_f], [name_f]Genevieve[/name_f], Dephine, [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
Same here, which is why the name that pops to mind when I see this thread is [name_f]Tamsin[/name_f]. Has anyone read that book? The title is simply “[name_f]Tamsin[/name_f]” and the cover art says it all.
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalie[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Twila[/name_f]
[name_f]Florence[/name_f]
[name_f]Helena[/name_f]
[name_f]Rhiannon[/name_f]
[name_f]Vivienne[/name_f]
There are probably going to be a lot of repeats on this list.
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Aida[/name_f]
[name_f]Iphigenia[/name_f]
[name_f]Phaedra[/name_f]
Afrodille
Belisent
[name_f]Isolde[/name_f]
[name_f]Yseult[/name_f]
Nimue
[name_f]Antigone[/name_f]
[name_f]Ondine[/name_f]
[name_f]Desdemona[/name_f]
[name_f]Gwyneira[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f]
[name_f]Socorro[/name_f]
[name_f]Lolita[/name_f]
[name_f]Dulcinea[/name_f]
[name_f]Quintana[/name_f] (influenced, no doubt, by the death of [name_u]Joan[/name_u] [name_u]Didion[/name_u]'s daughter)
[name_f]Isobel[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Aster[/name_f]
[name_f]Viridis[/name_f]
[name_f]Io[/name_f]
[name_f]Magdalena[/name_f]
[name_f]Atalanta[/name_f]
[name_f]Tatiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurora[/name_f]
Mélisande
[name_f]Corisande[/name_f]
Solace
Lumi
[name_u]Echo[/name_u]
[name_f]Isadora[/name_f] (another one to file under “tragic deaths”)
[name_f]Isabeau[/name_f]
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
[name_f]Fionnuala[/name_f]
[name_f]Araminta[/name_f]
[name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Endellion[/name_f]
Aluma
[name_f]Eve[/name_f]
[name_f]Fatima[/name_f]
[name_f]Faye[/name_f]
[name_f]Freya[/name_f]
[name_f]Ursula[/name_f]
[name_f]Ursuline[/name_f]
[name_f]Valentina[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassia[/name_f]
[name_f]Heloise[/name_f]
[name_f]Isaura[/name_f]
Sumarlina
[name_f]Valencia[/name_f]
[name_f]Jerusha[/name_f]
[name_f]Jocasta[/name_f]
Rosamel
[name_f]Sabrina[/name_f]
Soliel
[name_f]Solange[/name_f]
[name_f]Odette[/name_f]
[name_f]Perdita[/name_f]
[name_f]Roxana[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucinda[/name_f]
[name_f]Mireille[/name_f]
Miraya
[name_f]Naima[/name_f]
[name_f]Naomi[/name_f]
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lorelei[/name_f]
Belphoebe
[name_f]Calliope[/name_f]
[name_u]Dove[/name_u]
[name_f]Eluned[/name_f]
[name_f]Lourdes[/name_f]
[name_u]Vesper[/name_u]
[name_f]Sylvaine[/name_f]
[name_f]Yvaine[/name_f]
[name_f]Sephora[/name_f]
Luscinia
[name_f]Circe[/name_f]
[name_f]Cosima[/name_f]
I think most names with unfortunate backgrounds are the most hauntingly beautiful.
[name_f]Pandora[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Delilah[/name_f]
Names with bad meanings are also, usually, hauntingly beautiful in their own ways.
[name_f]Cecilia[/name_f]
[name_f]Leah[/name_f]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Claudia[/name_f]
[name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
[name_f]Lilith[/name_f]
[name_f]Jezebel[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Francine[/name_f]
[name_f]Delphine[/name_f]
[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]
[name_f]Saffron[/name_f]
[name_f]Philomena[/name_f]
[name_f]Dahlia[/name_f]
[name_u]Simone[/name_u]
[name_f]Faustina[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurelie[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurora[/name_f]
[name_f]Alexandria[/name_f]
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_f]Camellia[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ilse[/name_f]
[name_f]Ione[/name_f]
Khione
[name_f]Iolani[/name_f]
[name_f]Nadia[/name_f]
[name_f]Yvonne[/name_f]
[name_f]Yvaine[/name_f]
[name_f]Yvette[/name_f]
[name_u]Winter[/name_u]
[name_f]Verity[/name_f]
[name_f]Natalia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]
[name_f]Talia[/name_f]
[name_f]Thea[/name_f]
[name_f]Odette[/name_f]
[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]
[name_f]Romana[/name_f]
[name_f]Odile[/name_f]
[name_f]Celeste[/name_f]
me too! [name_u]Millais[/name_u]'s ophelia comes to mind.
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]'s background is quite tragic.