Variant of Hebrew Azriel, meaning
help of God This is the name of the
Angel of
Death, who separates the soul from the body upon death.
Asphodel English name derived from the
name of the flower, itself from Latin asphodelus,
from Greek asphodelos. In
Greek mythology, it is described as a pale yellow
deathless kind of lily flower that overspreads the plains of Hades
and is the favorite food of the dead.
Roman myth name of a goddess of corpses, funerals, and the dead. Her name
was synonymous with the word
death
Slavic myth name of a goddess of death and winter, meaning
"death."
English nickname for both
Morton settlement on the moor, and
Mortimer dead sea
English surname transferred to forename use, itself from a
Norman baronial name, meaning
dead sea in Old French. Used as an English form of Irish/Gaelic
Muiriartach mariner, seaman
Nickname for
Greek
Thanatos, meaning "death."
Greek myth name of a god of death, meaning "death."
starvation; in the Indian
legends represented as a quasi demigod, whose howling and approach indicate
death and destruction.
"Goddess of the dead." Scandinavian name, composed of
the Old Norse elements valr "the dead" and dis "goddess."