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Copy pasting from the wiki because I'm lazy like that:

Her full name is Utsuho Reiuji (霊烏路 空). The characters for Reiuji (霊烏路) literally mean, in succession, "soul/spirit", "crow/raven", and "path". Utsuho (空) means "emptiness/empty-hole/cave" in old Japanese. It would be supposed to be pronounced as "utsuo" if we did after the old style. A similar case is Sanae's position "hofuri" v.s. "hōri". They are examples of Japanese counterparts of spelling pronunciation. The character for Utsuho also means "sky", and can be pronounced "kuu" in a compound word. Hence her nickname, Okuu (おくう) is never spelled officially by ZUN as お空, which should shares friendly with that of her very good friend, Orin — the hiragana of a honorific prefix preceding the kanji of her personal name like "お燐", not "おりん". It sounds old — such a name as "Okiku" or "Otome" was ceased to give to babies approximately after WWII, so it is an archaic type of name. This is also the case of Orin. Also, "O-kuu" (おくう) is probably a pun of "Oku-u" (屋烏, a crow standing on the roof).