Octavia, Etta, Ophelia or Olive

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Which do you prefer and why? Sibling for Rafferty.

I love Etta but couldn't use Octavia or Ophelia without cringing personally.
Olive is a bit odd.

No more olives please...just think of olive off 'on the buses', actress made to look as ugly as the name

Etta by far my favourite but doesn't go with Rafferty. To many et sounds.....

I quite like Etta! The rest are too pretentious for me.

Olive and Rafferty are a perfect match ..both cool names .

Ophelia

Really not keen on Olive. Probably because of the Popeye cartoon .

The generation who like Olive have absolutely no interest in that show. I am 60 and genuinely cannot remember one of those programs 🤦‍♀️

I imagine Ophelia might be nicknamed Phe(Fi) or Phelia.

I really like olives but don’t want to name a child after them.

I would go for Etta or Olivia. Octavia makes me think of the car, Olive will always be a murky green, salty, oily fruit to me, I can't understand its growing popularity.

I'm more than a decade younger than you and I know about it

Etta or Ophelia

I’m 39 and know who olive from on the buses was. It’s been repeated enough times on tv.

I like Octavia and have a 12 year old neice called Octavia and she is wonderful). I like Etta because as someone thread said Etta James is iconic.

@defi Montserrat as in the island? Holds fond memories if so which makes me like Ophelia more!

Op I personally don’t like Olive at all.

I never watched it and I love the name.

Etta sounds like the end of an actual name. Henrietta for eg.
Ophelia is pretentious. Octavia is ok if you have a distinguished surname to carry it off.
Olive is Popeye's girlfriend and very drab. Olivia is so much nicer.

Olive and Rafferty are the only pairing that work for me as they kind of off-set each other. Olive brings Rafferty back down to earth and Rafferty livens up Olive.

Rafferty and Ophelia, Rafferty and Octavia both too pretentious for words. Etta seems unfinished as a name. How about Rafferty and Delphine, Rafferty and Beatrice, Rafferty and Seraphina?

Octavia the ostrich from Pipkins.
Olive from On the buses.

Etta - don't like it.

Ophelia - would be lovely if she's tall and willow as an adult but if she's a short dollop the name would be awful.

Rafferty and Eloise sound nice together.

I don’t think you should take into account a sibling’s name. It has no bearing really unless wanting to avoid obvious silly sounding pairings such as Bill and Ben.

Octavia

Ophelia. Etta is nice too but I think Ophelia goes better with Rafferty.
Ottilie?
I’m not keen on Olive or Octavia personally.

Ophelia to me is the woman who drowned in Hamlet, so no.

Octavia is a bit posh wank but if you are posh, then yes it's fine. I do know an Octavia who is very posh, the name suits her. (I also have a name similar tbh, really wish it wasn't so wanky)

Olive - I think of Popeye!

Etta - like this.

My choices are obviously not well received! Fine with me though, i don’t want a snoozy name…e.g., a twenty millionth Olivia.

Surprised that Ophelia is considered pretentious though. If anything I was concerned that the upturn in popularity would make it a new Darcey/Tracy.

Portia would be more aspirational than Octavia.