Nameberry Picks: The Best O Names

I think Margot would make a good addition to this list.

Juno is cute, but I like Juniper more. Otto is a family name on my husbands side (his grandfather) but I don’t want to use it if it will become the next big thing. Theo is cute and probably will take off soon.

I like a lot of names on this list- Hero, Indigo, Juno, Otto- but if I had a little boy right now, i’d call him Arlo. Its my biggest name crush at the moment and another great O name.

There is a Clio in Maeve Binchy’s book The Glass Lake. Her full name is Cliona which is pretty.

I love Hugo!

First, can I just say the little girl in the Juno pic is absolutely adorable!

I have a friend whose grandson is named Otto, its adorably fresh. I also adore the name Milo, I have for years. Orlando is great but I am such a big Disney fan and despise Shakespeare so much people would think I named my child after the Disney Town

Freya55, we agree on Arlo but felt we’d written about him so much lately that we didn’t want to include him again. And CountryLizB, I was so torn about leaving Margo off this list that I nearly included her at the last minute, but we don’t like to end up with 13 picks — triskaidekaphobic!

You guys must have looked at my favorite names list! I think you are missing Viggo though.

We know! Love Viggo! But since Natalie Hanson just wrote about it — http://nameberry.com/blog/a-celebrity-mom-surveys-her-name-choices — we didn’t want to cover again so quickly.

One of my favourite -o names is Callisto

Just wanna say that Juno can also be used on boys – its a male name in Portugal.

I really like Indigo best out of these. I also suggest Calypso and Kaio.

There is also Cosmo, Rocco and Leo.

Love Otto,Juno,and Theo! Where are Odessa, Oceana,Odelia,and Olivia?

Hero was the top of our list about five years ago, and Milo was up there as well, though neither is as high on the list now that we’re actually expecting. We have been considering Inigo (not Indigo) for a boy) right now. We’d also talked about Aino for a girl, from the Kalevala, but worried it sounded too much like “I know;” I also like Medo as a nickname for Medora. Otto, however: I just cannot picture an Otto looking like anything but SZ Sakall, which is to say, short, Germanic, and chubby.

I love almost all of these! My favorite O names are Viggo, Vonnoh, Milo and Leo for boys, and Margo, Juno, Cleo/Clio.. I also love Rocco for boys and Hero for girls but I don’t think I’d be brave enough for either of them.

No Margo? She’s the classic big sister of the ‘O’ names!

Clio, Milo and Theo are my favorites!

I LOVE o-ending names. My favorites are Waldo and Roscoe. Great list!

I love o-ending names for both genders. I love Clio and Juno for girls and Hugo, Milo, Theo and Otto for boys. If I wasn’t such a nitpicker about sibsets, I may want to add Inigo and Camlo to the list as well. Hey, if the Kardashians can have all K’s and the Duggars all J’s, why can’t I have all O’s?

Orlando’s my favorite! Love that name, but I don’t think I’ll use it, for the same reason as aunt_ning

I like a lot of these. Benno might be a cool way to honor a Benjamin–what do you think?

The worst thing about “o” names is they’re so fun and distinct that I’m finding other names pale in comparison and yet I couldn’t use another because it sounds far to matchy for my taste! (my son is Theodore, called Theo) Theo and Clio? Nope. Theo and Otto? Nope. Theo and Margo? Sadly no. Oh well

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I think Enzo & Apollo are awesome and very handsome. Others I really enjoy are words: Minnow, Sparrow, Meadow, and the most intriguing, Hallow. I do like the simple Beau/Bo, as short for Boaz.

I also really love Bruno, so handsome and masculine. I first heard it on a 50-something coworker when I moved to the heavily italian north jersey area in 2003 and really liked the distinctive sound. Plus it stands on its own, no nicknames necessary.

The title of this post is a bit misleading ‘O names’ (most names end in O on these list)…
Oceana is my fav O name! I like Odessa too.

Ocean and Obediah are my fav boy O names.