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The Name Begins With The Letter O:
ONNI  m  Finnish
Means "happiness, luck" in Finnish.

ONORA  f  Irish
Irish form of HONORA

ONUR  m  Turkish
Means "honour" in Turkish.

ONYEKA  f  Igbo
Short form of ONYEKACHUKWU

ONYEKACHUKWU  f & m  Igbo
Means "who is greater than God?" in Igbo.

OONA  f  Irish
Variant of ÚNA

OONAGH  f  Irish
Variant of ÚNA

OPAL  f  English
Means simply "opal" from the English word for the iridescent gemstone, the birthstone of October...

OPALINE  f  English
Elaborated form of OPAL

OPEYEMI  m  Yoruba
Means "I should give praise" in Yoruba.

OPHELIA  f  English
Derived from Greek οφελος (ophelos) meaning "help"...

OPHIR  m  Biblical
Meaning unknown. This is the name of a son of Joktan in the Old Testament.

OPHIUCHUS  m  Astronomy
Means "serpent bearer" in Greek...

OPHRAH  m & f  Biblical, Jewish
Means "fawn" in Hebrew...

OPRAH  f  English
Variant of OPHRAH...

ORA  f & m  English
Modern name based on Latin oro "to pray".

ORABELA  f  Esperanto
Means "golden-beautiful" in Esperanto.

ORAH  f  Jewish
Means "light" in Hebrew.

ORAL  m  German (Swiss)
Swiss form of AURELIUS

ORALEE  f  English
Possibly a variant of AURÉLIE

ORALIE  f  English
Possibly a variant of AURÉLIE

ORAN  m  Irish
Anglicized form of ODHRÁN

ORAZIO  m  Italian
Italian form of HORATIUS

ORBÁN  m  Hungarian
Hungarian form of URBAN

OREL  m  German
Swiss form of AURELIUS

OREN  m  Jewish
Means "pine tree" in Hebrew.

ORESTES  m  Greek Mythology
Derived from Greek ορεστιας (orestias) meaning "of the mountains"...

ORFEO  m  Italian
Italian form of ORPHEUS

ÓRFHLAITH  f  Irish
Means "golden princess" from Irish ór "gold" combined with flaith "princess"...

ORI  m  Jewish
Means "my light" in Hebrew.

ORIA  f  Italian
Italian form of the Late Latin name Aurea which was derived from Latin aureus "golden"...

ORIANA  f  Italian
Possibly derived from Spanish oro "gold"...

ORIANE  f  French
French form of ORIANA

ORIANNE  f  French
French form of ORIANA

ORIGEN  m  History
From the Greek name Ωριγενης (Origenes), which was derived from an unknown Greek element combined with the element γενης (genes) "born"...

ORINDA  f  English
Possibly a short form of names ending in orinda...

ORINTHIA  f  Literature
Possibly related to Greek ορινω (orino) meaning "to excite, to agitate"...

ORION  m  Greek Mythology
Meaning unknown, but possibly related to Greek ‘οριον (horion) "boundary, limit" or ουρον (ouron) "urine"...

ORIT  f  Jewish
Means "light" in Hebrew.

ÖRJAN  m  Swedish
Swedish form of GEORGE

ORLA  f  Irish
Anglicized form of ÓRFHLAITH

ORLAGH  f  Irish
Anglicized form of ÓRFHLAITH

ÓRLAITH  f  Irish
Variant of ÓRFHLAITH

ORLANDA  f  Italian
Feminine form of ORLANDO

ORLANDO  m  Italian
Italian form of ROLAND...

ORLI  f  Jewish
Means "light is mine" in Hebrew.

ORLY  f  Jewish
Variant transcription of ORLI

ORMAZD  m  Near Eastern Mythology
Modern Persian form of AHURA MAZDA

ORMEROD  m  English
From a surname which meant "clearing of (a person named) Orm" in Old English.

ORMOND  m  English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Ruaidh meaning "descendent of Ruadh"...

ORMONDA  f  ?
Feminine form of ORMOND

ORMONDE  m  English
Variant of ORMOND

ORNA (1)  f  Irish
Anglicized form of ODHARNAIT

ORNA (2)  f  Jewish
Feminine form of OREN

ORNAT  f  Irish
Anglicized form of ODHARNAIT

ORNELLA  f  Italian
Created by the Italian author Gabriele d'Annunzio for his novel 'La Figlia di Jorio'...

OROITZ  m  Basque
Means "memory" in Basque.

ORPA  f 
Variant of ORPAH

ORPAH  f  Biblical
Means "back of the neck" in Hebrew...

ORPHA  f  English
Variant of ORPAH

ORPHEUS  m  Greek Mythology
Perhaps related to Greek ορφνη (orphne) meaning "the darkness of night"...

ORRELL  m  English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "ore hill" in Old English.

ORRIN  m  Irish
Anglicized form of ODHRÁN

ORSINA  f  Italian
Feminine form of ORSINO

ORSINO  m  Italian
Italian form of the Roman name Ursinus, itself derived from Ursus (see URS)...

ORSO  m  Italian
Italian form of Ursus (see URS).

ORSOLA  f  Italian
Italian form of URSULA

ORSOLYA  f  Hungarian
Hungarian form of URSULA

ORSON  m  English
From a surname meaning "bear" from Norman French ors, ultimately from Latin ursus...

ORTRUN  f  German
Derived from the Germanic elements ort "point" and rún "secret".

ORTWIN  m  German
Derived from the Germanic elements ort "point" and win "friend".

ORTZI  m  Basque
Means "sky" in Basque.

ORVAL  m  English
Variant of ORVILLE

ORVAR  m  Swedish
Means "arrow" in Old Norse.

ORVILLE  m  English
This name was invented by the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney, who perhaps intended it to mean "golden city" in French...

ORVOKKI  f  Finnish
Means "pansy flower" in Finnish.

OSAMA  m  Arabic
Variant transcription of USAMA

OSAMU  m  Japanese
Means "discipline, study" in Japanese.

OSANE  f  Basque
Means "cure, remedy" in Basque.

OSANNE  f & m  French
French form of HOSANNA

OSBERT  m  English
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and beorht "bright"...

OSBORN  m  English
Derived from the Old English element os "god" combined with beorn "bear"...

OSBORNE  m  English
Variant of OSBORN

OSBOURNE  m  English
Variant of OSBORN

ÓSCAR  m  Spanish
Spanish form of OSCAR

ÒSCAR  m  Catalan
Catalan form of OSCAR

OSCAR  m  English, Irish
Means "deer lover", derived from Gaelic os "deer" combined cara "lover"...

OSHEEN  m  Irish
Anglicized form of OISÍN

OSHER  m  Jewish
Means "happiness" in Hebrew.

OSIP  m  Russian
Russian form of JOSEPH

OSIRIS  m  Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Greek form of the Egyptian Asar which is of unknown meaning...

ÓSKAR  m  Icelandic
Icelandic form of OSCAR

OSKAR  m  Scandinavian, German, Polish, Slovene
Scandinavian, German, Polish and Slovene form of OSCAR

OSKARI  m  Finnish
Finnish form of OSCAR

OSKARS  m  Latvian
Latvian form of OSCAR

OSKU  m  Finnish
Short form of OSKARI

OSMAN  m  Turkish
Turkish form of UTHMAN... []

OSMOND  m  English
Means "god protector" from Old English os "god" and mund "protector"... 

OSMUND  m  English
Variant of OSMOND

OSSIA  f  ?
Feminine form of OSSIAN

OSSIAN  m  Irish
Variant of OISÍN used by James Macpherson in his epic poems, which he claimed to have based on early Irish legends.

OSVALD  m  Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of OSWALD

OSVALDO  m  Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of OSWALD

OSWALD  m  English, German
Derived from the Old English elements os "god" and weald "rule"...

OSWIN  m  English
Means "friend of god" from the Old English elements os "god" and wine "friend"...

OSZKÁR  m  Hungarian
Hungarian form of OSCAR

OTAKAR  m  Czech
Czech form of ODOVACAR

OTÁVIO  m  Portuguese
Portuguese form of OCTAVIUS

OTHELLO  m  Literature
Perhaps an Italian pet form of OTTO...

OTHNIEL  m  Biblical
Means "lion of God" in Hebrew...

OTHO  m  Ancient Roman
Roman cognomen of unknown meaning...

OTIENO  m  African
Means "born at night" in Luo.

OTIS  m  English
From a surname which was derived from the first name OTTO.

OTOKAR  m  Czech
Czech form of ODOVACAR

OTSO  m  Finnish
Means "bear" in Finnish.

OTTAVIA  f  Italian
Italian form of OCTAVIA

OTTAVIANO  m  Italian
Italian form of Octavianus (see OCTAVIAN).

OTTAVIO  m  Italian
Italian form of OCTAVIUS

OTTILIA  f  German, Italian
Variant of ODILIA

OTTILIE  f  German
Variant of ODILIA

OTTO  m  German, Scandinavian, Dutch, English, Finnish
Later German form of ODO...

OTTÓ  m  Hungarian
Hungarian form of OTTO

OTTOKAR  m  German
German form of ODOVACAR

OTTOLINE  f  English
Pet form of OTTILIE

OTYLIA  f  Polish
Polish form of ODILIA

OUIDA  f  French
French pet form of LOUISE

OURANIA  f  Greek Mythology
Derived from Greek ουρανιος (ouranios) meaning "heavenly"...

OURANOS  m  Greek Mythology
Original Greek form of URANUS

OVADIA  m  Jewish
Hebrew form of OBADIAH

OVE  m  Scandinavian
Short form of names that contain the Old Norse element ag "blade".

OVED  m  Jewish
Hebrew form of OBED

OVID  m  History
From the Roman family name Ovidius, which was possibly derived from Latin ovis "a sheep"...

OVÍDIO  m  Portuguese
Portuguese form of Ovidius (see OVID).

OVIDIO  m  Italian, Spanish
Italian and Spanish form of Ovidius (see OVID).

OVIDIU  m  Romanian
Romanian form of Ovidius (see OVID).

OWAIN  m  Welsh, Welsh Mythology
There are several theories on the origins of this name: it could be a Welsh form of EUGENE; it could be derived from either of the Welsh elements oen "lamb" or eoghunn "youth"; or it could be related to Esos, the name of a Celtic god...

OWEN (1)  m  Welsh
Modern form of OWAIN

OWEN (2)  m  Irish
Anglicized form of EOGHAN

OWENA  f  Welsh
Feminine form of OWEN

OXANA  f  Ukrainian, Russian
Variant transcription of OKSANA

ØYSTEIN  m  Norwegian
Norwegian form of EYSTEINN

ØYVIND  m  Norwegian
From the Old Norse name Eyvindr, which was derived from ey meaning "island" and vindr possibly meaning "victory" or "wind".

OZ (1)  m  English
Short form of OSCAR, OSWALD and other names beginning with Os.

OZ (2)  m  Jewish
Means "strength" in Hebrew.

OZAN  m  Turkish
Means "bard" in Turkish.

OZANNE  f & m  French
French form of HOSANNA

ÖZGE  f  Turkish
Means "other, different" in Turkish.

ÖZGÜR  m & f  Turkish
Means "free" in Turkish.

ÖZLEM  f  Turkish
Means "yearning" in Turkish.

OZZIE  m  English
Variant of OZZY

OZZY  m  English
Pet form of OSCAR, OSWALD and other names beginning with Os.

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