Io ?

I quite liked it when I thought it was pronounced YO (In Wales so it was my first thought), EYE O not so much.
If you love it , use it though!

Much too short - looks incomplete.

Don`t like the way it sounds either.

This is an old thread. But glad you are using it new op.

Be interesting if she ever meets my son...

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Could look a bit like '10' written on his school report...

is that pronounced like 'yo' ?

It's too confusing. It makes Ivo seem very classic. it also reminds me of George bush saying yo blair.

awful dont do it

I have a greek mythology name on my list. So I'm kind of biased when I say I like other greek names :D

It kind of makes me feel like it's a shortened version of something else...I do like it though.
because my dd is researching Io for science at this very moment.

Fabulous. Use it.

I suppose it's not that much different from Ian, which is a common name among my generation.

@kittenofdoom, She can't possibly be any louder or more active than our boys, 1 and 2, though she will certainly add to the chaos, and we're looking forward to it... mostly!!

@badtime, thanks, and I agree that the Welsh origin of Seren might serve to confuse that the forename also shares a Welsh pronunciation, which we don't want. It leaves an interesting choice. I like Selene, but perhaps not enough. Luna, the Roman variation does not fit well either. We had considered Sofia, or Sorella, but it quickly loses it's original meaning and our reason for choosing those names. We'll certainly rethink and revisit with any news though!

@sundanceclaire Io has always been my first choice name for a girl, call me crazy, I love it, and it's one that the more you hear it the better it sounds. Each to their own though.

Io? When I opened this thread I thought you must have missed a few letters off of Iona or something. Io doesn't even seem like a name.

floorless, I really like the name Io (also Hero, Leto, Clio etc - all the short 'o'-ending Greek mythology girls' names). I am glad you are using it.

I do not think it looks good hyphenated with Seren. Io Seren would be fine, Io-Seren not so much.

Another issue would be that Seren is a Welsh name, and people may assume that you would be pronouncing 'Io' as if it were Welsh - as people have mentioned above, 'yo'. Perhaps consider Serena, or Selene (to keep the moon theme going).

"the most volcanically active body in the Solar System"
" louder and more intense than anything closer"

Io, pronounced Eye-O, is the most perfect name. I'm glad not many 'get' it, it's a name that our daughter will soon be known by, and we couldn't be happier. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, moreso than Venus, forced by Jupiters' gravitational pull to stretch and release allowing the inside of the moon to become molten and re-solidify during every orbit causing a highly volcanic environment.

Though I enjoy the myth of the supposed nymph, Io, a priestess of Hera, who was caught seducing Zeus and who Hera in turn transformed into a Heifer, that's not why we're using it. Io embodies the idea, for me, that even 500 million miles from it's host star, a previously thought-of lifeless dot is actually louder and more intense than anything closer.

In contrast, we're using Seren as a middle, perhaps barrelled name. Io-Seren, or Io Seren. Ying and Yang. Volatility and Serenity.

Is it Yo or Eye-O or Jo?

That must be it Iawn, I have to say it's just as well they didn't go with Eos as my niece is now 5 and, although very lovely in many ways, she has a terrible, terrible singing voice .

I love it - my iPhone is named Io because my husband will never consider it... plus we have a Theo.

I blanched at it, tbh. I'm sure I could get used to it. Personally I favour consonants in baby names.

Will be really really easy for her/him? to recognise & write own name upon starting reception, so there's a plus. Short name labels. Don't need to bother with surname on them, either. Should be easy to say even if they have a severe speech impediment, too, or someone else in the family does (do Not like I did call your speech delayed child something like Tristram).

Iolanthe would be okay. Kinda funky. Frequently mispronounced (but so are many common names).

Do you mean Eos (ey-os) ling? I love it! Means nightingale in Welsh :)
Ioan is a brilliant name.

Love it. Only if pn Eye-O.

I have a Ioan and his nickname at school is 'Yo's'!!

There is a female name called Ios isn't there? Might be Welsh. My slightly crazy ex sil wanted to call my niece Ios (pron eye-oss). Luckily her elder sister told everyone she was named something far prettier and forced her mother's hand.

Love it

I first read it as LO but with lower case L. lo. Io.

Written by hand it would look like the number 10.
Or it looks like just initials.
You can't name the poor kid this. It would confuse everyone!

Sorry, but to me it would looked a though you'd named a child in binery