honest opinions needed

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I am trying for our DC 2, DD1 was stillborn last year, so we have been through a lot. I was pg last summer and unfortunatly also lost that baby to an early miscarriage. But while we were pg, DH suggested the name Odessa for a girl. It means journey, and well we thought it was pretty, strong and had a meaning that didn't completly take over.

So we still love this name but I wanted some honest opinions.

Does it mean anything bad to you, does it bring up any bad connotations? I don't really care if it sounds chavvy or too unsual. I just want to make sure we are not missing anything about the name.

Thanks

I am German but didn't know about the nazi connection.

I like the name, but the first thing that comes to my mind is that it is a city in the former Soviet Union.

I am sorry for your losses.

I thought Odessa Files immediately, but I didn't know what ODESSA stood for. I think it sounds pretty. Perhaps more of a middle name?

It made me think of the Odessa Files but then I have read the book and live Frederick Forsythe. No one else I know has heard of him let alone read his books. But it is a lovely name and has a meaning to you do I think you should use it and not worry about it

Live? Love!!

It just makes me think of the city rather than a female version of odyssey.

I think it's a pretty name. I had never heard the name/word before so means nothing to me.

If you like it use it.

.. and meant to say so sorry to hear about your losses. Best of luck x

Your baby's name is of course up to you, OP.

Have you thought about Odette? It's the name of the heroine in Swan Lake and doesn't have the SS connotations of Odessa that people have already mentioned. But it sounds very similar.

Or a more common name that sounds similar to Odessa is Vanessa.

Hope everything goes well for you from now.

Thanks for the feedback, just really wanted to know what associations people had with the name, what others think of the name or how it sounds doesn't really matter to me. Just wanted to know that we hadn't missed anything about its meaning to the world.

But it is interresting to know that not all of you thought of SS or Potemkin.

I think for us the meaning and the fact that we love the name still out weighs what has come to light on this thread. Who knows when we fall pg again we might have changed our minds, but thanks again.

I have a colleague at work called Odessa and whilst I thought it was an unusual name when I first came across her I didn't make any of the associations others have made on this thread. I think in real life people take names more on face value than when considering them theoretically on threads like this.

I forgot about Odessa in the Color Purple. She's amazing!

I love it, and I know all about Eisenstein

Sorry about your losses.
Odessa has no negative connotations for me. The only connection my mind made was it made me think of one of a character in a Ballet...don't even remember which one...possibly the white swan in the Black Swan ballet, not sure, but I think it was a good character not a villain type.
Good luck with everything and go with your gut when it comes to names, in the end the person makes the name, not the other way around.

I'm not quite sure if I like it or not. Great help. I think it would take some getting used to. But I can't say I don't like it.

Odessa is the name of a place. Odyssey means "journey".

I thought of the city. And that it would be be parallel of a Ukrainian family call in their child Liverpool or Felixstowe.

I'm so sorry for your losses. I don't mind the sound but the SS thing immediately sprung to mind for me there would be no getting away from that sorry.