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Opal. I genuinely just think this is a cute name, and would consider as a middle name if my spouse would ever agree to it.

Opal. I love the stones and I think it makes a pretty, yet unusual name. I didn't use to like Olive at all, but it's grown on me the last couple of years and I really like it now. Oakley is nms and sounds like a boys name to me.

Opal. I knew a young Opal a few years ago and she freshened up the name for me. Also, opals are beautiful.

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Oakley sounds too backwoods. Olive is too foodish.

Oakley is actually a name I’ve been considering recently —I think it’s cute. It’s so funny, I haven’t been a regular on the site in a few years now but I come back and there’s a post about a name I've been thinking about.

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I don’t totally dislike the other two - Opal, though its not a name I’d describe as “beautiful,” has a quirky appeal (I feel the same about Phoebe) and Olive is cute but I can’t get past the food and see it as a name.

Oof.
Opal is so old granny-ish. I know it’s supposed to be such a lovely name, but, I can’t take it.
Oakley is just downright ugly.
So, Olive it is. I suppose I can at least use the nickname Olivia, as people seem to make nicknames for anything when it has nothing to do with the name.

Oakley - Surnames with place name connections aren't my taste, but I do like how it conveys picture of a clearing protected by mighty, ancient oak trees.

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Opal - ugly, awkward sound

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Olive - small pickled things that are eaten on top of hors d'oeuvres.

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Grudgingly, I would choose Oakley. Even though it isn't my style, oak trees are very evocative of positive traits to me. At least the Annie Oakley association isn't negative even if it isn't a connection I would typically choose.

Opal. It’s one of my faves.

Olive. It's pretty and it's a tree and it has good symbolism. Fruit, schmuit.

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Opal is hideous to me ... sounds like it could be respelled Ople. Ople and Mable and Orval. Ugly fusty name.
Oakley's brothers and sisters: Hurley, Reef, Rusty, Stussy, and Dakine. haha

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Oakley!

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Opal is a close second, though. Oakley Fisher from YouTube's Kyler & Mad aside (I think they're on Team 10 or something, so I avoid them), I think it's beautiful and unique.

Opal. I actually do like it some. Oakley sounds like a big goofy dog, and Olive is supposed to be pitted.

If I was forced to choose at gunpoint I'd go with Olive. I hate Oakley and Opal reminds me of a gossipy old lady in the south who wears too much makeup and never has anything nice to say.

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Olive is very hipster, the people I know who have used it are very stylish, "I'm so unique"

Olive. I love Opal in theory but think it sounds too frumpy and old lady-ish to be used on a real child. I hate Oakley for both genders. Olive has always been a name I liked, a lot of people dislike the food connection but I don't mind it. It brings to mind olive trees, which symbolize peace and friendship.

Olive, primarily for the nn Liv.

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Oakley is a dog name to me and I just don't like the sound of Opal.

Opal. It has that cute vintage vibe everyone's going for lately.

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Olive is sweet but doesn't seem like a person's name to me and Oakley is an unattractive surname that doesn't strike me as feminine at all.

The sound I actually like best is Oakley. I might actually pick Oakley. Oaks are fricken cool and a major symbolism of the town I live in. Ley is a field. Oak field? Yes I want my daughter called that.

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Opal sounds like a low-lying root I would trip over. Hard to pay attention to. Olive is just a dumb name. I know a REALLY cute toddler named Olive and her name sucks.

The name I will choose here will be my most disliked chosen name. It's Opal. I hate it. But I hate Oakley and Olive more. It's hard to say why I hate Opal less intensely than the other two. I guess because it doesn't make me think of a tree or an olive. Opals themselves are pretty. Two of my sisters have the opal as a birthstone so I've had occasion to see them. So I guess that's why I hate it less, though to me it's still ugly and waaay too country. (But I think my birthstone, the ruby, is even prettier and I love the name Ruby.)