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I've always liked Octavia, but like you, the absence of a potential nickname makes it a bit unappealing. I guess you could use Tavie. I've never cared for Ophelia. Just the way it's pronounced oh-feel-ya.

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Leslie, lucky mommy to Scott (2000), Delaney (2002), and Larissa (2005)

I like both of these names too! For nns maybe Lia(Lee-ah)for Octavia and Tavi (Tay-vee) or Tavia for Octavia.

Love Octavia, don't care for Ophelia as much. I'd rather Olympia instead. Ophelia seems more average to me, almost akin with Olivia. They're all nice names but I like Octavia more because it's much more interesting, IMO.

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I wouldn't go with a nickname at all. I know a girl Octavia, twenty-ish years old, who's never had one.

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Octavia: Tavy, Tave, Tav, Ottie, Otie, Ocky, Via, Vivi, Octy, Ock, Ovie, Ota, Otta

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Ophelia: Opie, Fifi, Lia, Fi, Ophie, Oli, Ola, Flea

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I really love Octavia, and Ophelia's all right for someone else's kid. It just reminds me of snakes--"Ophelian delights" and all that.

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Array

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The dogs on main street howl
`Cause they understand
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister, I ain't a boy--no I'm a man,
And I believe in a promised land.

I also like the names Octavia and Ophelia. :) If I'd have thought of it, I'd have loved to name my girl cats this (instead they are Stormy & Sunny, lol). I do know a little African American girl named Octavia, and her mother calls her Tay-Tay. But I don't particularly care for that. Vi (VEE), Tavi, Tavia and Avi are possibilities. For Ophelia, maybe O, Fi (FEE), Fifi, or even Ophie (like Sophie with out the S :b)?

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~Heather~

Octavia - Avia, Ava, Avie, Tavie, Tavia, Tay, Taya
Ophelia - Lia, Eli, Elia, Ella, Lili, Fay/ Faye

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Arcadia

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I think Ophelia is so pretty written down, but said out loud it just sounds like "I feel ya" so I think a girl named Ophelia would be teased a lot.
NN ideas.
Octavia: Tavie, Osee, Vivi
Ophelia: Ophie (Which I don't like!), Leelee, Lia, Feelie (Ew!), Fifi

I like Ophelia but Octavia sounds masculine to me for some reason.
Ophelia: nn Fifi
I know this has nothing to do with your post but anouther "O" name I like is Odessa.

Ophelia is great! I'd nickname her Pheli / Feli though. Octavia is not so much my style, but it's okay, too. I'd nickname her Tavi.

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Cheers,

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First of all, I LOVE both names.

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Second of all... Nn's!

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Octavia: Tavia, Avia

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Ophelia: Ophia, Lia

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That was all I could think off.

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