Unusual girl names beginning with O?

[LadyThompson]

Ottilie, Octavia...thoughts on these please, and what else? I don't want anything made up, or too modern, or too popular, however pretty (eg Olivia).

I like Ottilie. Octavia is a bit too patrician for me. Have you thought of Ophelia?

Ophelia is very pretty, but I can't get away from the Shakespearean model of going nutty and drowning herself. Bloody Shakespeare. Mind you I expect there aren't too many girls called Goneril.

We considered Octavia quite seriously for dd2, and actually she has the personality to live up to it. But in the end we thought it was just a shade the wrong side of pretentious, plus the classics nerd in me would be annoyed about the eighth child meaning (she is the 3rd and last!).

Noooo - it's not ghastly at all. Go with your instints. If you like it and feel it works with your surname then be d*mned with everyone else.

You are never, ever going to find a name which everyone universally likes.

I cannot imagine a name prettier than my DDs but lots of people hate it.

(my dd is not called Octavia btw)

I much prefer Octavia to Ottilie.

Odessa
Odette
Olave
Oralee
Oriana
Odelia

particually like Oriana, don't know what it would shorten to though....

I know an Oriana who is generally known as Rio

I know a toddler called Othona

Odaline

Octavia Hill was a rather impressive dame, housing and all. A Good Person.

I absolutely love Ottilie and ds2 would have been called it if he was a girl. I have also floated Ophelia with dp and some friends before, as always quite liked it. Unfort dp and friend burst out laughing, repeating the name but pronouncing as 'i-feel-ya' - not something that had ever crossed my mind though and still a very pretty name.

sorry, should have said, they were making lewd grabbing hand gestures to accompany their horrible pronounciation - they were at school with a rather well endowed Ophelia

Ottilie makes me want to say Ottilie Bottilie (utterly butterly)

Ophelia and Odette are nice though.

from baby book...
Ozana 'treasure'

Orquidea 'orchid'

you can bet your life, there won't be another Orquidea in the playground...:0

Love Octavia and have always wanted to use it myself. Could not go anywhere near Ophelia - why would you want to name your child after a famous character who killed themselves? Blimey.

Octavia is lovely, I know of someone born on 08/08/08 who is called that which is a fab story behind a name so if the baby comes on the 8th you should definitely consider it

Olivia

Is it the letter O or the O sound you want, btw? Because if it's the sound, how about Honor as in Honor Blackman?

I love Octavia.

I have a friend called Oriole, so it's not made up.

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Edam, I like the way O looks. Hey, I'm pregnant, everything seems different now...Yeah, Oriole is I think from Aureole, which means circle of light. It is also that bit round your nipple. Nice name nonetheless.

Oleander is quite nice as well. I think it's a tree...or a bush. Part of the problem is that I have got one of the dullest names ever burped out of the 1970s, and have always longed to spare a child the same fate. However, obviously the flipside is I don't want to call the poor girl 'Oordvorkia' or the like, just to be different.

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