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Octavia

36 replies

slidley · 07/07/2015 11:15

What are opinions on Octavia, for a girl, please. Good name or bad name? Also, I'd thought it was obvious, but how would you pronounce it.

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Turtlefeet · 07/07/2015 12:26

DS has a friends called Oc-tay-vee-ya. She is called Otty for short.

I think it is a lovely names.

LorelaiVictoriaGilmore · 07/07/2015 12:24

Amazing name. Love it, love it, love it!! I had a children's book called 'The Moon's Revenge' by Joan Aiken when I was little and it has a character called Octavia - I've loved the name ever since!

Tattiesthroughthebree · 07/07/2015 12:20

Oct-tay-vee-ah

If I met an Octavia I might wonder if she was an eighth child.

sallyst123 · 07/07/2015 12:15

Love it!
I'd pronounce it oc tay vee ah

Sidge · 07/07/2015 12:13

I love it. I wanted to call DD3 Octavia but was vetoed Sad

I pronounce it Oct-ay-veeya

UpNorth74 · 07/07/2015 12:05

Id say oc-tay-vee-ah.
Beautiful alternative is Oceana, there are probably other spellings, pronounced oh-shee-ah-na.

TheJiminyConjecture · 07/07/2015 11:55

Had sex with her brother.

I'd pronounce it Oc-tay-vee-ya

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 07/07/2015 11:50

8th child?

midnightvelvetPart2 · 07/07/2015 11:28

I'm ambivalent, I'd pronounce it Oc tay vee a possibly Oc tarr via

To me it means a measurement of 8ths derived from octave, a car, there's an Octavia in Shakespeare (Anthony & Cleopatra possibly?) & its a character in The 100, & a character in a Jilly Cooper book when I was younger.

No good or bad associations with the name from me...

strawberryshoes · 07/07/2015 11:20

my car is a skoda octavia

I say oct-tar-vee-a
some say oct-tay-vee-a

WellErrr · 07/07/2015 11:17

I like it.
Oc-tay-vee-a.