Io ?

[lemonstartree]

what do you think ???

In Wales it would be pronounced 'Yo'. So hopefully you don't live there.

A huge no if your DC ever visits Wales (prn Yo)

X posts, sorry pepper!

Great minds MrC!

Ioan is a nice Welsh name. I know a Ioan with a Yo nn

Io was changed into a cow, so I would avoid the name.

Lemonstartree had a sprog. E I E I O. Would I use it as a name? No no no no no.

No no no it's terrible, it's just a couple of letters, not a name. Smacks of trying far too hard.

How do you pronounce this name? I was pronouncing it 'Yo' but I'm Welsh so one of the above posts has made me think it must be I-O or Ee-O or something like that.

Io? Bit of a heifer, poor thing.

Also a member of the Discworld pantheon (blind io)

Iona would be much better bet.

I also instinctively thought of "I" in Italian

You owe what?

Don't like it at all. Sorry!

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

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!

Love it

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. Only if pn Eye-O.

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

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).

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

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 .

Is it Yo or Eye-O or Jo?

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.

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

Let's hope she doesn't live up to her name.