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I do not care for Octavia. I cannot shake the association of the first wife of Emperor Nero, a notorious persecutor of Christians, rendering the name unusable for me (though I am sure this only sharpens its appeal to some posters on here).

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But even without that association, I think it is an ugly name with ugly sounds. I don't like the sound "ahk". It reminds me of my great-grandmother's name, Akhtar (actually it's Akhtarmoluk), a name I have always considered outrageous.