Oz Names: Some fanciful ideas from the Emerald City

During the hundred times you’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, you may have noticed that it isn’t a particularly fertile source of interesting names.  There’s Dorothy of course, and Aunty Em and Uncle Henry, plus the farm names of Dorothy‘s companions on the Yellow Brick Road–Hunk, Hickory and Zeke–and the nasty, bike-pedaling Miss Elvira Gulch.

But it happens that this was just the first in a series of Oz books.  L. Frank Baum himself wrote 13 more, with titles such as The Patchwork Girl of Oz and Rinkitink in Oz, and then other authors stepped in to bring the number up to 40.  Just looking at the Baum creations alone, you enter a wonderland of wildly inventive appellations of the Princess-Fluff/Professor Nowitall variety–not particularly baby-appropriate–

many of them attached to all manner of strange creatures, from leprechauns to fairies, to giants, to a menagerie of sometimes surreal animals.

But there are also some human characters with (often bizarre)  humanish names.  Maybe you can  find some usable ideas among them–see (and judge) for yourself.

ALLEGRO

AUREX

AZURE

CERULIA

CLIA

COBALT

CORALIE

ELVIRA

EVANNA

EVARDO

EVELLA

EVROSE

GAYELETTE

HENRY

IANU

INDIGO

INGA (a male)

JELLIA

JINJUR

KIKI (a Munchkin boy)

MARGOLETTE

NANDA

NELLARY

OJO (another Munchkin boy)

OZMA

QUELALA

RORA

SAPPHIRE

SACHO

TANDY

TIP

TURQUOISE

ZEBEDIAH

ZEKE

ZIXI