Which witchy names are the witchiest?

😁Happy🎃Halloween!🧡 One can't think of 🎃Halloween's holiday🎉 without thinking of the lore of 🧙‍♀️witches🧙🏾‍♀️. 🪄"Witches won," Halloween.com proclaims of The Most Popular Halloween Costumes of 2026 [13 Iconic ✨Witches✨ To Dress As].

From all the names of the most 🏆popular ✨witches✨ in 📚books, 🎭plays, 🖋️poems, 💬cartoons/comics, on 🎥film and 📺television — 🤔which 🧹witchy 📛name is really the 🐈‍⬛witchiest?!

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🎃The Witches🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Evangeline✨ aka "Eva" (1990 film)

🧙🏻‍♀️Lilith✨ (2020 film)

🎃The Witches of Eastwick🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Alexandra✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Suki✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Jane✨ 

🎃Eastwick🧡:

 🧙🏻‍♀️Joanna✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Katharine✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Roxanne✨

🎃Sabrina the Teenage Witch🧡: 

🧙🏻‍♀️Sabrina✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Zelda✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Hilda✨

🎃Practical Magic🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Sally✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Gillian✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Bridget✨ aka "Jet" & 

🧙🏻‍♀️Frances✨ aka "Franny"  (1998 film)

🧙🏻‍♀️Kylie✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Antonia✨ (2026 film) 

🎃Hocus Pocus🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Winifred✨ aka "Winnie", 🧙🏻‍♀️Sarah✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Mary✨

🎃Charmed🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Prue✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Piper✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Phoebe✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Paige✨ 

🎃Bewitched🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Samantha✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Endora✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Tabitha✨ 

🎃The Great and Powerful Oz🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Theodora✨

🎃The Wiz🧡:

🧙🏾‍♀️Evillene✨

🎃Wicked🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Glinda✨ & 🧙🏾‍♀️Elphaba✨ 

🎃The Vampire Diaries🧡:

🧙🏾‍♀️Bonnie✨

🎃The Craft🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Sarah✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Nancy✨, 🧙🏾‍♀️Rochelle✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Bonnie✨

🎃The Craft: Legacy🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Lilith✨ aka "Lily", 🧙🏻‍♀️Frankie✨, 🧙🏾‍♀️Tabby✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Lourdes✨ 

🎃American Horror Story: Coven🧡

🧙🏻‍♀️Fiona✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Cordelia✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Zoe✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Madison✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Myrtle✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Misty✨, 

🧙🏾‍♀️Queenie✨, 🧙🏾‍♀️Marie✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Nan✨

🎃Buffy The 🧛Vampire Slayer🧡: 

🧙🏻‍♀️Willow✨ (tv show)

🎃Harry Potter🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Hermione✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Luna✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Minerva✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Bellatrix✨ aka "Bella" 

& 🧙🏻‍♀️Narcissa✨ 

🎃Halloweentown🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Splendora Agatha✨ aka "Aggie" & 🧙🏻‍♀️Marnie✨ 

🎃The Lords of Salem🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Heidi✨ / 🧙🏻‍♀️Adelaide✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Sonny✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Megan✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Margaret✨

🎃The Crucible🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Elizabeth✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Mary✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Martha✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Tituba✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Rebecca✨ 

& 🧙🏻‍♀️Sarah✨ 

🎃Witch🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Thomasin✨ 

🎃The 😇Good Witch🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Cassandra✨ aka "Cassie" & 🧙🏻‍♀️Grace✨ 

🎃Rosemary's Baby👶:

🧙🏻‍♀️Minnie✨

🎃The Addams Family🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Morticia✨

🎃Elvira: Mistress of the Dark🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Elvira✨

🎃Spellbinder🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Miranda✨

🎃The Love Witch🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Elaine✨

🎃Forbidden Fruits🍎🍒🌳🎃:

🧙🏻‍♀️Apple✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Cherry✨, 🧙🏾‍♀️Fig✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Pumpkin✨

🎃The Mayfair Witches🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Rowan✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Deirdre✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Mona✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Deborah✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Charlotte✨, 

🧙🏻‍♀️Jeanne-Louise✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Angelique✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Marie✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Marguerite✨, 

🧙🏻‍♀️Mary Beth✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Stella✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Antha✨ 

🎃Agatha All Along🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Agatha✨

🎃The Chronicles of Narnia🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Jadis✨

🎃Odyssey🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Circe✨

🎃Medea🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Medea✨

🎃Metamorphoses🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Hecate✨

🎃Enchanted🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Narissa✨

🎃The Witches of East End🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Joanna✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Wendy✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Ingrid✨, 🧙🏻‍♀️Freya✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Penelope✨

🎃Once Upon A Time🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Regina✨ & 🧙🏻‍♀️Zelena✨

🎃Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Muriel✨

🎃Gretel & Hansel🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Holda✨

🎃❄️Snow White🤍and The Huntsman🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Ravenna✨

🎃❄️Snow White🤍: 

🧙🏻‍♀️Grimhilde✨

🎃💤Sleeping Beauty🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️Maleficent✨

🎃The Little Mermaid🧜‍♀️:

🧙🏻‍♀️Ursula✨

🎃Casper the Friendly Ghost👻:

🧙🏻‍♀️Wendy✨

🎃Suicide Squad🧡:

🧙🏻‍♀️June✨

According to the most 🥰beloved or 😱feared 🧙‍♀️witch🧙🏾‍♀️ character 📛names from the long list📃 ⬆️above, the ✨witchiest✨ names are tied between old fashioned, plain names: 📛Mary✨ and 📛Sarah✨ (✔️3 ✨witches each with both names). The next in line for most popular witch name is tied with the names: 📛Agatha✨, 📛Bonnie✨, 📛Joanna✨, 📛Lilith✨, 📛Marie✨ & 📛Wendy✨ (✔️2 ✨witches each with these names). I'm surprised there's multiple Bonnies (it's more cutesy) the most, followed by Joanna ("too" pretty) — they don't 🗣️scream ✨witch❗ to me.

It's cliche but my personal #1🥇 ☑️vote for the most ✨witchy name goes to the 📛name: ✨Sabrina✨ being the 🪄witchiest✨ name ever.👌🏾 ✨Sabrina✨ is just synonymous with ✨witches. 🤷🏾‍♀️ The runner up is definitely ✨Glinda🤍.  After: ✨Ursula🖤, ✨Elphaba🖤, ✨Tabitha🖤, ✨Samantha🖤, ✨Cordelia🖤, ✨Zelda🖤, ✨Hilda🖤, ✨Grimhilde🖤, ✨Hermione🖤, ✨Lilith🖤, ✨Morticia🖤, ✨Maleficent🖤, ✨Evilline🖤, ✨Elvira🖤, ✨Eva🖤, ✨Bellatrix🖤& ✨Willow🖤.  

Now, these names I'm about to name aren't on the ✨witch names ⬆️above but they are super ✨witchy 📛names that I equate with a ✨witchy 😘woman🖤🪄: 

✨Salem

✨Selene

✨Sirene

✨Morgan

✨Morgana

✨Medusa

✨Moira

✨Mercy

✨Misery

✨Demeter

✨Calista

✨Artemis

✨Hera

✨Hester

✨Helena

✨Wednesday

✨Angelica

✨Lolita

✨Megara

✨Giselle

✨Jacinda

✨Celeste

✨ Constance 

✨Eleanor

✨Jacinda

✨Raven

✨Ruby

✨Scarlet

✨Jewel

✨Jinx

✨Jade

✨Vesper

✨Ivy

✨Kimber

 ✨Erin

✨Destiny

✨Erykah

✨Siobhan

✨Saoirse

✨Simone

✨Sonja

✨Astrid

✨Isadora

✨Isidora

✨Isis

✨Iris

✨Isolde

✨Isabelle

✨Penelope

✨Soleil

✨Katrina

✨Cat

✨Bastet

✨Beatrix

✨Delilah

✨Dahlia

✨Evelyn

✨Gwendolyn

✨Gwyneth

✨Ruth

✨Persephone

✨Pandora

✨Jezebel

📌FELLOW 📛NAME BLOGS /📄PIECES ON ✨WITCH & ✨WITCHY 📛names:⬇️

🪄📛Nameberry🍒

https://nameberry.com/list/1604/witchy-names

https://forum.nameberry.com/t/witch-names/297620/8

🪄📛Name 🤓Nerds @ 💬Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/159bkr4/witchy_name_list/

https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/comments/1ck0s18/witchiest_sounding_names/

🪄📛Names @ 💬Reddit 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Names/comments/1fvbe44/witchy_names/

🪄1️⃣7️⃣

https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a44534376/witch-names/

NAME OF THE DAY: Poe

Today is the 177th anniversary of the great, 💀macabre writer✍🏻 Edgar Allan Poe's death (RIP) so I will discuss using the last name 📛Poe as a first name.

Behind the Name says Poe the surname 📛 originates from: "a medieval nickname for a vain or flamboyantly dressed person (from Old Norse pá 'peacock' 🦚)."

Nameberry🍒 says 📚readers of Edgar Allan Poe might, "provide inspiration for parents who are fans," in naming their baby Poe. Poe made name consultant Morgan Timm's: 🦄Ultra rare baby boy names 📛 of 2024 📃list. There were 5 boys named Poe 💙 in 2024 Name Census reports and 6 girls were named Poe 💓 in 2023. 🚫Zero baby girls 💓 were given this "radically underused" name as of 2025 but 5 baby boys 💙 were. As of 2026, 📛NB🍒 says, Poe as a boy name ranked 📉#10423 in 2025 according to SSA and peaked at 📈#7425 in ⏪2017. A variation of 📛Poe is: 📛Po. 

I love the name 📛Poe as a first name being I'm a huge Edgar Allan Poe fan.🖤 "An evocative unisex one-syllable name,"📛NB🍒 deems 📛Poe. Yet the short name is quite potent. I really like the quirkiness of 📛Poe being used for a girl 💓 ("a hip new middle-name choice,"📛NB🍒 proclaims) but traditionally speaking, I like 📛Poe more so used for a 💙boy. 

 ⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛POES:

📛Poe Dameron 🎥 (character in the ⭐Star Wars series)

📛Poe (born Anne Decatur Danielewski) 🎤 (singer)

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Poe:

https://namecensus.com/first-names/poe-meaning-and-history/

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Poe: 👍 OR 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤/10

NAME OF THE DAY: James

Today is James Bond Day!: a 🌍global 🎉celebration of the Bond aka 0️⃣0️⃣0077️⃣ 🎞️movies that debuted in ⏪1962 with the late Sean Connery playing the 😎cool and suave British 🕵️spy in 🎥Dr. No. 

✍🏻Author Ian Fleming created the James Bond character in 1953. The name 📛James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean 🦩bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born". He further explained that: 

When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument ... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

— Ian Fleming, The New Yorker, 21 April 1962

On another occasion, Fleming said: "I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, 'James Bond' was much better than something more interesting, like 'Peregrine Carruthers'. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department." 

The name 📛James is a boy's name of Hebrew, English origin meaning "supplanter," 📛Nameberry🍒 says. "James is one of the classic Anglo-Saxon names, a stalwart through the ages that is more popular—and yes, stylish—than ever today. It recently came out Number 1 in a poll of  America's favorite boys' baby names, and is the most common male name, counting people of all ages, in the US. James, which reentered the Top 5 in 2016, is a current favorite among fashionable parents looking for a baby name that has both style and substance. Like Henry and Theodore, it manages to combine these two stellar qualities." 📛NB🍒 continues on James, "An English derivation of the Hebrew name Jacob, James is biblical (the name of two apostles in the New Testament), royal (kings of both England and Scotland), and presidential (with more U.S. Chief Executives -- six -- than any other name). The name James is also shared by countless great writers and entertainers."

📛Nameberry🍒 points out the other forms of James as: Jimmy, Jimbo or even Jamie and proclaims, "the most fashionable form of the name is James itself." 📛James has now become a "fashionable" middle name choice for baby 💓girls. 📛NB🍒 showcases "interesting" foreign variations of James as: Diego and Jaime (Spanish), Jacques (French), Giacomo (Italian), Hamish (Scottish), Jaako (Finnish), Seamus (Irish), Jaap (Dutch) and Jago (Cornish).

James is a best of both worlds type of name: "along with being one of the most popular first names in the US, James is also one of the most common American last names. As of October 2026, James ranked #6 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1 in 1947,📛Nameberry🍒 popularity #2."

James Bond may be the quintessential British man, however the name James is not even in the ⬆️top 10 names for baby boys in England. It recently ranks 📉#42. 

Behind The Name says, the name James (English form of the Late Latin name Iacomus, a variant of the Biblical Latin form Iacobus, from the Hebrew name Yaʿaqov (see Jacob) ), "has been used in England since the 13th century, though it became more common in Scotland where it was borne by several kings. In the 17th century the Scottish king James VI inherited the English throne, becoming the first ruler of all Britain, and the name grew much more popular. In American name statistics (recorded since 1880) this name has never been out of the top 20, making it arguably the era's most consistently popular name. It was the top ranked name for boys in the United States from 1940 to 1952." 

📍California and 📍Kentucky are where the most Jameses live 🏠 in the U.S.

A variant of James is: 📛Jaymes 

I like the name 📛James, mainly because I 🥰 love James Bond (to the point I mused briefly if I had a son I would consider naming him 📛Bond, at least as a middle name 😄). And speaking of that exact name, when I had ⚖️jury duty🫡 twenty or so years ago⏪, the case I was being screened to be a juror on, had a defendant with the name... James Bond! 🤯 And to boot, he was 👨🏾Black! I was so shocked 😮 and I remember some of the jurors murmuring under their breaths when his name was told. None of us thought we 🔈heard correctly. 🫨 I remember being excited to tell my family later, there was a Black James Bond in existence. 😅 Besides that James, I knew a James through an old friend and I briefly met two other Jameses (one was his real name, the other was most likely a fake name used [😖long story❗] ). I'm surprised I haven't met that many Jameses in my life 🤔 given how it's such a popular name. 

But even if I wasn't a fan of James Bond, I would still like the name James. 👌🏾 📛James truly is a classic, nice name. It can be a bit boring 💤(depending on the wearer of the name but in James Bond's case, he holds one of the most exciting 🤗 names in 🍿cinema history)... yet it's still super ✔️smooth, ✔️masculine and definitely not going anywhere on the 📛name charts. 📊 

⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛JAMESES:

📛😇Saint "James the Just" 📖 (brother of ✝️Jesus)

📛😇Saint "James the Apostle" 📖 (brother of John the Apostle) 

📛"James the Less" 📖 (one of the Twelve Apostles of ✝️Jesus)

📛James Brown 🤎 🎤 (late singer)

📛James Earl Jones 🎥 (actor)

📛James Dean 🎥 (actor)

📛James Franco 🎥 (actor)

📛James Blunt 🎤 (singer)

📛James Taylor 🎤 (singer)

📛James Marsden 🎥 (actor)

📛James Corden 📺🎤 (tv host) 

📛James Paul McCartney 🎤 (musician, member of The Beatles)

📛James Todd Smith 🎙 (aka rapper LL Cool J)

📛James  "Jimi" Hendrix 🎤🎸(musician & guitarist) 

📛James "Jim" Carey 😂 (comedian)

📛James  "Jimmy" Stewart 🎥 (actor)

📛James "Jimmy" Fallon 📺🎤 (tv host)

📛Alexander James "AJ" McLean 🎤 (singer in boyband Backstreet Boys)

📛James Colson Baker 👨‍👦 (late father of 🎤musician mgk)

📛James Hetfield 🎤 (vocalist in/co-founder of band Metallica)

📛James Talarico    (American politician)

📛James Van Der Beek 🎥 (late actor who played character Dawson Leery on 📺tv show Dawson's Creek)

📛James Joyce ✍🏻 (novelist & poet)

📛James Cook 🧭 (explorer)

📛James Watt 💡 (inventor)

📛James "Ghost" 👻 St. Patrick  (main character on 📺tv show Power played by Omari Hardwick)

📛Captain James T. Kirk 🧑🏻‍🚀 (main character in ⭐Star Trek series originally played by William Shatner) 

📛James Lanier 👮🏿‍♂️🎥 (character in the movie The Invisible Man (2020) played by Aldis Hodge)

📛James Reece 🪖 (character on 📺 tv show The Terminal List)

📛James Trotter 📘 (character in the book James and the Giant 🍑Peach by Roald Dahl)

📛James Woodsen 📕 (character in the book Salem's Fall by Rektok Ross) 

📛James Olivia Fehr 💗 (daughter of 🎥actor Brendan Fehr, named after Metallica's James Hetfield)

♀️Female Version of 📛JAMES:

📛JAYE

💭I assumed the feminine version of James was Jamie🧐... I don't like Jaye for a girl 🙅🏾‍♀️ (I'm always going to think of rap legend Jay-Z when I hear the name Jay🤷🏾‍♀️)... although the 'e' does make it slightly more girly. 

📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛James:

https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/J/JA/JAMES/index.html

☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛James: 👍 OR 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙/ 10