Octavia

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Thoughts for a girl

Love it!

My friend’s rabbit is Octavia! The rabbit is cute 🐇
As a baby name - could be worse. Very different.

All I think of is the Skoda Octavia unfortunately.

If she is your eighth child I strongly feel you should use it! If not, it seems try-hard.

I know of an Octavia. I love it, her family nickname her Tavia

There's a character in The 100 called Octavia. I like it.

I know two, one is Occy, the other Taves.

I quite like Octavia, especially if there’s a link to 8. But it will always be shortened, and I don’t love the obvious nicknames.

I like Flavia if you’re going for the Roman vibe, though.

Great name!

I really like it and am normally a fan of traditional names. I suppose it is a really old solid name. I'd use it.

Sorry, makes me think of a Skoda.

I loved it for my first but then went with Antonia

Love it, it was on my shortlist but didn’t go with our last name

No, given as mentioned it is a car name.

Great name.

I think of Octavia the ostrich in Pipkins in the 70s - but that's only because I'm getting old!

It's a nice name though.

I had a skoda octavia

I wish it had a nice short version for every day use - I’d find it a bit of a mouthful for shouting across the park or introducing myself at work etc, but I’m not too keen on Occy etc…

Octavia is beautiful, elegant, Classical (and Shakespearean) and imo criminally underused - although it seems to be finally increasing in popularity now as people look to find the new Ophelia (which in turn was the new Olivia). I’d say get in now before it rises even more. Cute nn in Tavi too.

The car thing is ridiculous - like people assuming “Clio” or “ Mercedes” were named after cars, it says more about them imo - but maybe it depends on your area? 🤔 Equally I understand some people can’t get past the posh/try-hard idea (nearly always said about very Classical names). However people used to say that about names like Rupert, Arabella etc - and eventually they became Top 100 🤣 Not sure Octavia will ever reach quite that high, but formally UC names nearly always filter down to the rest of us eventually!

Same which is a shame as it's not a bad name otherwise.

It sounds terribly posh to me!

I think of the 100 series and thought it was a cool name! Thing is with 4 syllables it will likely be shortened for a nickname. X

Not a fan.

The potential shortenings to Occy and Taves are repulsive.

Is that good or bad?

I suppose it depends what you want! But I wouldn't call a child Octavia. It sounds upper class and snobby to me, personally.