Oliveyah
Or tried any creative spellings.
Olife
Olove
Alive
Ahliph
Allove
Haleef
Olaf
I also had a great-aunt Olive, born about the same time. (in the Scranton, PA area).
Are we cousins?
Botanically, both tomatoes and olives are unambiguously fruits. They grow on flowering plants, derive from specific parts of the flower, and are used to spread seeds.
In popular usage, fruit vs vegetable is generally determined by the answer to the question, “Better with chocolate or better with garlic?” However, in this brave new world of chocolate covered asparagus wrapped in bacon and garlic roasted strawberries, things are definitely getting ambiguous.
Yeah, but … there are lots of fruits that don’t grow on trees … berries, pineapples, bananas … and lots of things that grow on trees that aren’t fruits … leaves, nuts, money. At least, my mom said money grows on trees. Or maybe she said that it didn’t. I wasn’t really listening.
Name any vegetables that grow on trees?
Chocolate + garlic + tomatoes are among the many ingredients in mole poblano.
“It is the scent of garlic that lingers on my chocolate fingers”
I think Olive and Olivia are both very pretty names for a girl.
Cool story bro.
Yes it is.
Olivia exploded in popularity in the past 5 years and is now a top 10 name for baby girls, and Olive is a variant.
I think both names are nice, but I wouldn’t want my kid to be the 9th Olive or Olivia on their soccer team. If I have a kid I’ll pay close attention to the ubiquity of the names I consider.
FWIW Olive the protagonist of one of those back-of-the-magazine comics that used to appear in National Lampoon. She was clearly meant to be about college age, as I was, though I didn’t know anyone named Olive. Clearly it wasn’t thought of as a particularly passe name.
It’s not a huge favorite of mine, but neither do I consider it in the least objectionable. It’s certainly better than giving your daughter a male name, like the film star who recently named her newborn baby girl James.
You just know the mother of little Alive would get royally pissed off if anybody “incorrectly” pronounced her darling’s name to sound like the word that’s used to describe being not-dead.
Or as somebody already mentioned, why not Olivia? If she wants to be called Olive when she gets old enough to decide, she can do that.
Cassava, breadfruit , sago, plantains, leucaena, manjack, mongongo , mulga, olives, capers ……
The nature of the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere means that trees tend not to produce starchy fruit. That’s not true of the tropics and southern hemisphere where tree vegetables are normal.
Well, the edible parts of cassava and sago aren’t starchy fruit either, and only grow “on” the trees according to certain values… 
I suspect Olive is so you won’t be the 8th Olivia.
When Emily was popular, the variants became popular, so you got Emmas under a similar believe that the name was similar but different.
(For my daughter - born 1999 - its variations on Madeline and Margaret. I can have an entire house of Maddies, Maggies and Matties without blinking.
Isn’t there a poster named Olive? As I recall, she combined her name and birthday to form a pun. Olives March Forth or something like that. Is she still around?
I know one bargirl who uses the name Olive professionally, but that’s not her real name. Not sure if I’ve ever known any Olives for real. I am acquainted with an Englishman here named Oliver.
I think she changed her username for more anonymity.
Yep.
Ah yes. Thanks. Hope I didn’t out her needlessly.
Better or worse than Iyla Vue? You be the judge!
http://celebritybabies.people.com/2015/09/11/ashley-scott-daughter-iyla-vue-first-photo/
My good friend 慧嫦, who is from mainland Guangdong and only recently became good at English, named her US-born daughter Ruby. I found that rather disconcerting, as my friend is barely even able to pronounce her daughter’s name.