Octavia or Cosima?

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Just that really!

@Galaxygirl93

Are you a fan of The 100 and Orphan Black by any chance? :-)

I am and had them both on my girl list 🤣 couldn't have Raven as we know one haha

I'd pick Octavia if i could only have one but they're both great

for kittens

I’m afraid I have no idea how to pronounce Cosima. Is it Coss-ee-ma?

I’m not keen on Octavia but I know a lovely lady named Ottavia which I’ve always thought was beautiful

The only Cosima I know is known as Cossie (as in swimming…)

Octavia is beautiful. Cosima always sounds wrong to me, and I associate it with Nigella Lawson! (Name of her daughter.) I don’t like it that much.

@Mybalconyiscracking

Poor little mite!

Octavia is lovely, very elegant (Shakespearean) imo - and thanks to the popularity of similar Olivia and rising popularity of Ophelia, I don't think it sounds as "out there" or overly "posh" as it might have done 20 years ago.

I don't dislike quirky Cosima but I do prefer the nn's for Octavia too (Tay/Tavi) over Cossie.

Oh God, neither,sorry op
Octavia sounds like a spoilt brat
Is cosimo even an name??
Sounds awful either way

It's sounds like you are trying too hard for a posh name

There are so many beautiful , elegant names out there,but not the above two

Neither. How about the fabulous Cassia instead?

Octavia for sure.

Cosima

Octavia is a car

Everyone my age knows that Octavia had dreadful cankles but went to the Sourh of France with Rupert & Julian and tanned beautifully and then was given fishnets at Christmas which transformed them.,,.or was that another Jilly Cooper novel?

Both names are beautiful and I know lovely people with both names, but definitely Cosima in my opinion!

I was going to be an octavia, thank Christ my mum changed her mind.

Octavia is lovely

Neither. Both pretentious.

Neither.

Cosima sounds like a brand of panty liners. Octavia is ok, just very posh and a little pretentious. Better than Cosima though.

Cosima

I like Octavia.

@douliket agreed.

Both sound very try hard in my view. I would also put a name like Persephone in with that. I don't think octavia sounds elegant at all. I can imagine Amanda from motherland calling her DDS these 2 names and it would be done as a piss take.

Not keen on Cosima but I like Octavia (never heard of Amanda from motherland).

Neither, both sound like names that Hyacinth in keeping up appearances would have called her children if she has been having them! Octavia is probably what that idiot Rees-mogg will call his 8th and Cosima sounds like Aldi washing powder, plus reminds me of Nigella. If you have a cut glass accent and live in a naice part of the south east you might just carry it off but otherwise I think it might sound a bit ridiculous. And in said naice part of the south east you’ll probably find that there are hundreds of them and it’s very predictable.

@MojoJojo71 I love Ottavia! Thanks for that!!