It’s a trending name for small female dogs around here. As is Bella.
50 years ago it was the name of Anna Karen’s ‘plain’ character in the sitcoms ‘On the Buses’ and ‘The Ragtrade’.
I like it, but I probably wouldn’t name a daughter that because I have a preference for female names ending in Y.
I hated the name years ago though. It’s funny how our tastes change with time.
It makes me think of Little Miss Sunshine, which I loved, so that makes me like the name more. I don’t think I would name my own daughter that, though.
-Do you think this is a pretty/cute name for a girl? No. I like Oliver and Olivia well enough, but I hate Olive. It’s ugly and actually one of my two least favorite names for a girl: only the name Sloane rubs me the wrong way more.
-Would you name your daughter Olive? Um, no.
Naming your child after a vegetable is ridiculous. Everyone knows it should be restricted to fruits, flowers, or one of the American States.
My neighbors have an elementary school aged daughter named Olive. I think she’s the only Olive I know personally, but as mentioned upthread it was also the name of the little girl in the 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine.
I probably wouldn’t name a child of my own Olive because there are plenty of other names I like better, I really dislike olives the food, and (in addition to the young Olive already living in my neighborhood) my best friend has a daughter named Olivia and another friend has a son named Oliver. That seems like enough named beginning in “Oliv” for our social circle, but I don’t find the name “Olive” in and of itself to be problematic.
Olives are fruit.
I like it- and I don’t really like Olivia. It doesn’t go well with my last name though.
I had a great-aunt Olive. I think she was born around 1898. So I would think of it as an old-fashioned name, but those come back. I think there was an Olive in my husband’s family way back, as well.
I would not have named a daughter Olive but I don’t think it’s a terrible name, I just had others on my list that I liked better. And instead of “They’ll call her Livvy,” I would have thought, “THey’ll call her Ollie.”
They are? Are they only ambiguously fruit like tomatoes?
I like it as a name. She’d get along great with her sister Kelly and brother Hunter. Did I mention my last name is Green?
Oh, Lime…
They grow on** trees**.
My mother had a cousin named Olive, 1894-1980.
St. Louis blues singer Olive Brown
And speaking of Olivias, how could I forget one of my mother’s favourite books, Olivia, written anonymously by someone who was close to someone she knew.
It eluded me, because claustrophobic, heavy atmosphered, sensitive tales of forbidden love in fin de siècle girls’ boarding schools tend to pass over 12-yr-old boys’ heads.
I did manage Orlando though.
Olivelyn
Oliveleigh
Ashlive
McKolive
Makaylyve
(I’m sorry)
I know of no Olives. Olive is not a name, its a food.
Don’t forget spelling it backwards, like Neveah:
Evilo (pronounced “AY-vill-o”)