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Unusual girl names beginning with O?

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 10:47

Ottilie, Octavia...thoughts on these please, and what else? I don't want anything made up, or too modern, or too popular, however pretty (eg Olivia).

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CantSleepWontSleep · 12/06/2008 13:28

I like Octavia.

stealthsquiggle · 12/06/2008 13:26

I like Saffron

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 13:24

DP has come up with names I dislike -
Sapphire, Rachel, Saffron, Emma, Charlotte, or Claudette (I think the claw/debt sound makes this one particularly yucky, though it's a good name for a bailiff). He does like Octavia though, so we'll see. I'll show him some of these others.

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Sidge · 12/06/2008 13:24

I love Octavia but wasn't brave enough to use it!

I have also heard of an Oceanna, Oriana and Orlaith.

PuppyMonkey · 12/06/2008 13:20

Just re some earlier posts, the correct spelling is always OONAGH

Blandmum · 12/06/2008 13:18

Don't call her Ophelia if your surname or Balls or Dick BTW

dizzydixies · 12/06/2008 13:18

Ottilie is a fantastic name but dh will not be swayed

can you use it please so we can have one somewhere!??!

Habbibu · 12/06/2008 13:18

I know an Orietta - she's Italian.

Blandmum · 12/06/2008 13:17

Orange

Otolaryngoscope

Otolith

Onan

EachPeachPearMum · 12/06/2008 13:15

I do love the name Octavia, but DH has vetoed it.
I like Ottilie too, and Odile and Odette.
They are gorgeous.

bettybeetroot · 12/06/2008 12:53

Ora (light)
Oceana
Ophira (gold)
Ottilda
Odelette
Olexa
Oleta
Onora

MKG · 12/06/2008 12:53

Ophelia

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 12:38

Know about the car. Not bovvered

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hanaflower · 12/06/2008 12:37

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RCT · 12/06/2008 12:36

Was desperate to have Octavia for DC3(although he would have got strange looks in the playground )but finally compromised on Emilia as a girl's name when I drew up behind a Skoda Octavia at some traffic lights while pregnant. Do know an Octavia who is not shortened.

DD2 is a Toyota though ...

Shoshe · 12/06/2008 12:27

I know a Orchid, she is a cutie.

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 12:26

OHS - you cheeky monkey My middle name is Jane, and believe you me, that's exciting compared to the rest of my name. Pruners, I think you may be right

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OctaviaHawkingtonSmyth · 12/06/2008 12:23

I like Jane.

HuwEdwards · 12/06/2008 12:23

There is a girl in DD1s class called Orchha - Shakespeare I think

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Pruners · 12/06/2008 12:17

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 12:13

Oleander is quite nice as well. I think it's a tree...or a bush. Part of the problem is that I have got one of the dullest names ever burped out of the 1970s, and have always longed to spare a child the same fate. However, obviously the flipside is I don't want to call the poor girl 'Oordvorkia' or the like, just to be different.

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LadyThompson · 12/06/2008 12:09

Edam, I like the way O looks. Hey, I'm pregnant, everything seems different now...Yeah, Oriole is I think from Aureole, which means circle of light. It is also that bit round your nipple. Nice name nonetheless.

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Pruners · 12/06/2008 12:07

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