I have looked at many, many lists of Halloween and “spooky, scary” type name lists and I have to say I’m surprised I haven’t come across this one on any lists! You see plenty of word names such as Shadow, Shade, Raven, Tempest, Thorn and more, but no Gore.

Gore is well qualified to make it onto any list of Halloween baby names. The dictionary lists a few different definitions for the word gore, two in particular which are gruesome enough to earn Gore a place on any list of scary names. One is “blood that has been shed, especially as the result of violence”, as in horror movies featuring blood and gore. Another is “to pierce of stab with a horn or tusk”, i.e. to be gored by a bull. Which if you’ve ever seen the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona you’ll know is a sort of horror itself.

Grisly meanings aside, Gore came into use as a name in much

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