Opheila - growing in popularity? Other 'O' names?

[Cortina]

Any takers? Any know any under 3s?

Would you choose it ahead of Octavia?

Which other nice O names for girls are out there?

Ondine
Onnalee - I know one named after Puff the Magic Dragin
Olga (not sure this one is nice)..!

Also how is Mair - pronounced? Just been reading about a girl called Mair. Is it mare like the horse? Or as in nightmare? . Thanks.

Oprah, Onyx, Opal, Odette, Otillie, Olive...

I like Orianne

I think Olivia is really lovely

Whilst Ophelia is lovely, it does have negative connotations (drowning etc).

Orla - Irish name.
Olive
err - can't think of any more!

Ondine, a water nymph who curses her unfaithful husband to cease breathing if he should ever fall asleep again.

Oenone

I prefer Octavia to Ophelia.

Oriana
Orla
Odelia
Oliana
Odessa
Orlanda
Opal
Orfea

I know an Oria and an Ottilie, both nice names.

Btw, I pronounce the 'mare' in nightmare exactly the same way as the female horse; it never occurred to me that there was any other way to pronounce it...

Odette

I knew a Mair who pronounced it MY-er

Just about to suggest Olga, nice name. Ottoline is nice.

You need the proper Irish spelling of 'Orla'...it's Orflaith. Terrible!

Don't know any. I quite like it.

Orla can be Orla, Orlaith or Orlagh as well.

Orla or Orlaigh - an Irish name.

Ondine means mermaid in French.

I am desperate to use Ophelia but it doesn't work with dp's surname - Ophelia Wake anyone?

i love love love it.
I dont know any either. i would be very jealous of anyone that used it though

Oonagh or Oona - The Irish seem to have a good line in O names

Lol at Ophelia Wake. Would accurately describe mornings in your house though, I bet

bof you now us too well

If you are going to use the name Ophelia you might be interested in an article about unfortunate name combinations in today's Times. I quote "Very amusing, but perhaps not so entertaining for the real-life Ophelia Balls, born in Georgia, in the US, in 1885. Ash has also uncovered Ophelia Butt, Ophelia Self, Ophelia Willy and a couple of Ophelias I couldn't possibly mention without risk of offence."!

Again- all applying to Gigi

Ophelia Balls- that cracks me up

well my surname is Bell so that'd be just fabulous

Ophelia's lovely. But I don't like the shakespearian's one so be miffed if people linked it to it.
Ornella? Oriel/Orielle?

Oriana is lovely I think.