Ulalume

OO-la-loom

Literary invented name, Latin

"wailing, a light symbolizing sorrow"

Ulalume Origin and Meaning

The name Ulalume is a girl's name meaning "wailing, a light symbolizing sorrow".

The titular character of a tragic poem by Edgar Allen Poe set in a lonesome October. Ulalume may be representative of death itself, making the name feel gothic and otherwordly. The etymology is uncertain, but Poe may have derived it from the Latin ululare meaning wailing or lumen a light symbolizing sorrow.