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Other names!

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All these names are related to the goddess Kali, so negative: Durga (very bad), Kamakhya (even worse), Chamunda, Shyam, Kakaradi, Kadi, Sara-Kali, Kauri, Kali-Maa, Kali-Chinnamasta, Shamshana Kali,

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Tlazolteotl: "goddess of filth" in Aztec language
Cailleach: "witch" in Celtic language
Malinali / Malinche / Malintzin / Marina / Ixkakuk / Malina: the most hated woman in South American history
Judas: of course lol
Pontius, Pilate, Ponce....
Cain
Delilah
Jezabel and Athaliah / Athalia: bad queens of the Bible
Sheetla: "goddess of smallpox" in Hindu

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And of course... Adolf, Benito, Saddam, Ossama, Attila, Gengis...

I'm sorry if some of these names are already mentioned by Atarah or Kandake (hi, Kandake! :)

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Ajuji - refuse heap child (Hausa, West Africa) Refers to a Hausa tradition, when the maternal grandparents pretend to throw away the newborn child to blight the evil spirits. The mother then "rescues" the child.)
Alkas - she is afraid (Native American, language unknown. Many Native American names where recorded without any information about tribes.)
Apara - she comes and goes (ie she will die). A Yoruba name given to a weak newborn to prevent her from dying.
Aud - void, empty (Old Norse)
Ayondela - comes from an Umbundu proverb, which means "a little tree bends more and more, just as we all bend towards death".
Dezba - go out to war (Navajo)
Hedwig - battle, war (Old German)
Joby - hated, derided, haunted (Hebrew)
Kali - black goddess
Kaluwa - forgotten one (Usenga, Africa. Given to blight the spirits)
Kesi - born when her father had problems (Swahili)
Klesa - pain (Hindi. Given to blight the spirits)
Liliha - detest (Hawaiian)
Makadisa - she was always selfish (Baduma, Africa)
Manaba - war returned with her birth (Navajo)
Marcia - war-like (Latin)
Meriwa - thorn (Inuit. Given to blight the spirits)
Pollyam - plague goddess (Hindi. Given to prevent the children from catching the plague. Also a boys' name.)
Vatusia - they leave us behind (Umbundu name. Means that the dead are gone and we can but lament.)
Yanaba - she meets enemies (Navaho)

Mara, "bitter" in Hebrew

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Isola, "lonely", "isolated" in Latin

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Tristan, "sad" in Old French

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Amos, "troubled" in Hebrew

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Caleb, "dog" in Hebrew

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Dinah, "judgment" in Hebrew

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Gershom, "stranger", "exiled" in Hebrew

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Lilia, "night" in Hebrew

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Job, "persecuted" in Hebrew

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Lia, "weary" in Hebrew

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Lilith, "woman of the dark" in Hebrew

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Lot, "veiled" in Hebrew

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Seth, "he who replaces someone else" in Hebrew

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Talman, "to injure, to oppress" in Hebrew

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Zia, "trembling" in Hebrew

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Dolores, "sufferings" in Spanish

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Soledad, "loneliness" in Spanish

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Cruz, "cross" in Spanish

A few such names:

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Mallory - unfortunate, ill-fated
Acanit (ah-chah-neet): Ungandan: Hard times
Alile: Nigerian: She weeps; for a child born into unfortunate circumstances.
Desdemona - ill-fated one
Magara: Rhodesian: Child who constantly cries
Solita: Latin: Alone
Trista: Latin: Sorrowful (or riot, tumult...depending on origin)
Letha/Lethe: Greek: Oblivion
Nepenthe: Egyptian: That which makes one forget.
Karayan: Armenian: The dark one
Anaba: Navaho: She returns from war
Soledad: Spanish: solitude
Misericordia: Latin: pity (Also: "A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because it was used to give the death wound or "mercy'' stroke to a fallen adversary.")
Severina: Latin: stern
Melpomene - the Muse of tragedy
Tacita - silent
Morana: Slavic: death

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Go to the main page (www.behindthename.com) and do a search for "words in meaning" for each meaning you're interested in - some of those words are unlikely to have names with those meanings, but you can try!