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I don't know if everyone gets the association, personally I can't get past it and don't think it's really useable.

I really don't associate it with Oedipus at all. For some reason, it reminds me of the card game Canasta... the -asta part, that is.

I love it and would probably use it. It's in my top 10. I do think people will think of that Jocasta though.

Because of the myth, in addition to the Oedipus complex there's the Jocasta complex, in which the mother is sexually attracted to her son and rejects his father. Freud's theories are sexist crap, but that's what I think of.

I don't like the sound of it. Plus, aside from Oedipus's mother, it only makes me think of a character from books I like by that name-- an old blind lady in the 1700s. Other than those two characters I've never heard the name before.

I agree that it's a beautiful name, and I don't think that the average person would recognize it as Oedipus' mother. I didn't. :-D

Eh, I make the Oedipus connection immediately. First time I heard the name was reading the plays of Oedipus this past year actually. I don't even like Gertrude due to the reference of Hamlet's mother and she was a complete airhead but at least that name can have other associations. I don't know, I couldn't name my daughter Ophelia as much as I love the name.

It's really not my style. I don't think you need to worry about the Oedipus story, as most people probably aren't too familiar with it and wouldn't make the connection.

I don't think many people would recognize it as Oedipus's mother. I wonder if most people would even recognize Oedipus as something other than "that Freud thing".

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I too think it is beautiful!

Jocasta is an indubitably beautiful name -- the association doesn't repel me.