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Orly?

28 replies

Sinople · 06/07/2011 12:21

Ive only recently heard of it. It's meant to be unisex but i think i prefer it for a girl.
What do you think?

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LeMousquetaireAnonyme · 06/07/2011 12:22

Airport!

dilbertina · 06/07/2011 12:27

Yes - airport, and having spent 4 hours on the Paris peripherique doing a journey that should take 30 mins max getting to it the other day, not an airport I'm particularly enamoured of!

walesblackbird · 06/07/2011 12:29

Orla ... but Orly is an airport.

Sinople · 06/07/2011 12:34

it's hebrew and means light of mine :)

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TobyLerone · 06/07/2011 12:34

This is all I can think of.

SloganLogan · 06/07/2011 12:35

It sounds like a mixture of Orla and Carly.

winnybella · 06/07/2011 12:36

Sorry, but first thing that came to me was the Parisian airport.

JanMorrow · 06/07/2011 12:45

It's also internetz speak for "really". It does remind me of the airport or a nn for Orla though.

JanMorrow · 06/07/2011 12:46

snap with Toby

pilates · 06/07/2011 15:34

Airport, Orla much better.

wigglesrock · 06/07/2011 15:55

Agree with all previous posters and if heard it for a boy, I would think it short for Orlando.

freerangeeggs · 06/07/2011 18:43

ditto JanMorrow and TobyLerone :) It's an okay name though, hardly a bad reference

birdofthenorth · 07/07/2011 09:59

I'd go with Orla & call her Orla as a nn if you wish.

Or if you like the "or" sound you could think about Audrey, Cora, Autumn, Maudie...?

birdofthenorth · 07/07/2011 10:00

Or at s push Albany?

PurpleStrawberry · 07/07/2011 11:49

Beautiful name.

Orli is the original spelling though, which I prefer.

PurpleStrawberry · 07/07/2011 11:56

Oops - I clicked on post before finishing what I had to say!

I have a Jewish friend who is named Eliora, which means 'my God is light' and she goes by Orli for short.

Another form is Liora which has the same meanings as Orli ('my light, 'light is mine or 'I have light'', as it's the same Hebrew components Or and Li, just in reverse. Liora is the feminine of Lior.

Perhaps you could use Liora or Eliora and use Orli as a nn?

squeak2392 · 07/07/2011 13:20

I really like it.
If she has a 3rd daughter, this will probably be my friends choice (she loved it until she found out about the airport - I'm working on her though Wink)

themildmanneredjanitor · 07/07/2011 13:21

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mathanxiety · 07/07/2011 18:52

Charles de Gaulle has a nicer ring to it.

fishandlilacs · 07/07/2011 21:22

It's nail polish www.amazon.com/Orly-Coffee-Break/dp/B0019R5XL4

Primafacie · 08/07/2011 02:53

How about
Heathrow
Stansted
La Guardia
Gatwick
Charles de Gaulle? Although this would probably work better on a boy.
Grin

Sinople · 09/07/2011 05:57

Im glad there's somewhere out there who agrees - Purple Strawberry! :)

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Sinople · 09/07/2011 22:20

Orli?
Elora?
Ellora?

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BuntyPenfold · 09/07/2011 22:23

I do like it, (anyhow it is better than de Gaulle :) which is dismal.)

BelleStar · 10/07/2011 18:11

I really like the name Orly. I'm familiar with Paris and also have a friend called Orly and never thought about the airport when I met her. (For her Orly is short for Orlanda).