O Names!

What are your thoughts on these O names?

  • [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottiline[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottilia[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Odette[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Ondine[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Odile[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Opal[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
  • [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]

[name_f]Opal[/name_f] is one of my favorite names!! (Unfortunately I am not sure if we could use it because of our [name_m]Abel[/name_m] & [name_f]Olive[/name_f]).

All the names on your list are nice (I love O names too), but [name_f]Opal[/name_f] and [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] are my favorites.

Personally I only like [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f], but they’re all nice names regardless. :slight_smile:

[name_f]Opal[/name_f] is one of my favorite names!! (Unfortunately I am not sure if we could use it because of our [name_m]Abel[/name_m] & [name_f]Olive[/name_f]).

All the names on your list are nice (I love O names too), but [name_f]Opal[/name_f] and [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] are my favorites.

I adore [name_f]Odette[/name_f], [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] and [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]. Like [name_f]Ondine[/name_f], [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] and [name_f]Odile[/name_f]. I don’t care about [name_f]Opal[/name_f].

O names are so cool at the moment! I love [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] with a nickname of [name_u]Ottie[/name_u]. I also love [name_f]Olive[/name_f] even though it’s not on your list.

They feel too old fashioned to me-
[name_f]Opal[/name_f] excluded

Nice list…I adore [name_f]Olive[/name_f] as well!

  • [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottiline[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottilia[/name_f]
    My favourite of these (in English) is [name_f]Ottilia[/name_f], it’s easy to pronounce and I love how feminine it sounds.
    I also really like [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f], though I prefer the [name_m]German[/name_m] prn., I find that in English the pronunciations vary too much!

  • [name_f]Odette[/name_f]
    I find this a bit heavy.

  • [name_f]Ondine[/name_f]
    I like the look but the sound doesn’t appeal to me, the “On-” (ironically) turns me off.

  • [name_f]Odile[/name_f]
    Very pretty and delicate sounding. It has a slightly haunted vibe due to the [name_f]Swan[/name_f] [name_u]Lake[/name_u] association but that works in the name’s favour, I find.

  • [name_f]Opal[/name_f]
    Has no appeal to me, reminds me too much of the car brand.

  • [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
    I love this as Oc-[name_m]TAH[/name_m]-vee-a, I’m not a huge fan of Oc-[name_u]TAY[/name_u]-vee-a though it is pretty, too.

  • [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
    [name_u]Love[/name_u] this with the 4-syllable pronunciation. Has been my favourite name for a long time and I still really like it but there seems to be a lot of buzz around this name at the moment and while I don’t mind popular names, there’s something haunting about it (which I, again, like) that gets lost with [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] being used more and more.

I’ve bolded ones I particularly like.

[name_f]Ottilie[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottiline[/name_f]/[name_f]Ottilia[/name_f] - [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] feels the most usable to me. [name_f]Ottiline[/name_f] is a possibility, but both that an [name_f]Ottilia[/name_f] sound a bit too much like a video game name, like a [name_m]Roman[/name_m]-fighting-barbaric-Germans type video game. [name_f]Ottilie[/name_f] is cuter, but has enough substance for the real world.
[name_f]Odette[/name_f] - I kind of forgot this was a name. I like it. Not enough to use it myself (I don’t like the d sound), but I’d appreciate it if someone else did!
[name_f]Ondine[/name_f] - A bit heavy, all long vowels and with a “d” right in the middle
[name_f]Odile[/name_f] - Sounds like “oh deal,” which is a little too much like “oh dear” for me
[name_f]Opal[/name_f] - A nice name, but I think of the old lady in the Pickles comic
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f] - It’s wearable, yet unique. I only worry it’s a little to princess-y for a girl who might end up a tomboy
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] - definitely the most “normal,” but I’d venture that even this is unique enough to please your inner namenerd :slight_smile:

I’ll also suggest [name_f]Oriana[/name_f], [name_f]Olesia[/name_f], and [name_f]Odessa[/name_f].