Oz Names: Some fanciful ideas from the Emerald City

What, no Billina?

What a fun list! You know I must add the Ozian names of the magical maidens AUDAH, AURAH, and AUJAH to your list:

The Sorceress looked up from her work as the three maidens entered, and something in their appearance and manner led her to rise and bow to them in her most dignified manner. The three knelt an instant before the great Sorceress and then stood upright and waited for her to speak.

“Are you witches or workers in magic?”

From “The Three Adepts,” Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum.

– Nephele

Allegro, Cerulia, Coralie, Indigo, Margolette, and Rora are all beautiful in my opinion. Great list!

I remember reading these books as a child and being amazed at the strange names! I really like Allegro (for a boy) and Coralie (for a girl).
Wikipedia lists his children as Frank Joslyn, Robert Stanton,
Harry Neal, and Kenneth Gage. A very fun list!

Sorry, but I was limiting the blog to human characters, so couldn’t include Billina–no hens allowed–even if she did sort of become the new Toto and name all her chicks Dorothy after her friend.

I know you chose not to include non-human characters, but that hardly seems fair considering the majority of the characters are talking animals or fairy denizens of Oz (Ozma is no more human than Billina). The Nome King for example is called both Ruggedo and Roquat, depending on the book. I always liked his names.
What about Ojo? I don’t remember Olo.

There’s also a great book by Baum called Queen Zixi of Ix with some whangdoodles of names in it:
Lulea
Espa
Ereol
Bud
Quavo
and of course, Zixi.

No wonder you didn’t remember Olo–he was from the land of typos–should have been Ojo!
And you’re right–there are so many great names of animals and fairies and such, including:
Nikko the flying monkey
Kaliko, King of the Nomes
Mar the kangaroo
Locasta, the Good Witch of the North
Lavender Bear
Theobold the cat
Pim the leprechaun
Clio the banshee
Imogene the cow
and Pajuka, the Prime Minister turned goose

Yeah, where is Billina This is a fun list. I especially like these,

AZURE
CERULIA
CLIA
COBALT
CORALIE
EVROSE
INDIGO
MARGOLETTE
RORA-would male a pretty nickname for Aurora
SAPPHIRE-GP, I think it makes a great middle name
ZEBEDIAH-I have been seeing this pop up in the BAs lately

I really like Cobalt, Coralie and Zeke… I want to like Zixi, I love “ixie” names, but I find this one a little hard to say.

No Glinda on the list? I’ve actually met one.

Thanks for this list, I love The Wizard of Oz (actually, I think Oz is a really cool name!) I didn’t realize there were 40 books! I want to go read them now!

Moving forward to the “Wicked” books (Gregory Maguire’s take on Oz) turns up the fabulous Elphaba (Elphie), Galinda, Nessarose, Melina, and Liir.

PunkPrincess, don’t forget Boq! That’s my favorite name from Wicked.

Don’t forget Fiyero from Wicked, I love that name!

Continuing the Wicked theme: Nor, or Illianora

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And now of course we have Elphaba taken from the authors name- L. Frank Baum (L-F-ba)! An interesting additon, though I hope to never meet a little Elphaba Elphie would make a sweet nn for a Delphine

awwwww, I really want to have a kid called Delphine now, just so I can call her Elphie! Bit weird…
From Wicked there’s also Pfannee and Shen-Shen, but I’m not sure if they’re just nicknames

Ojo is also a little bear on Bear in the Big Blue House