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Olive

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Mumblyboo · 13/08/2013 22:50

I love.. What do you think? Sum it up in three words please .... :)

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printmeanicephoto · 21/08/2013 00:15

Great!

WinterCarlisle · 19/08/2013 17:02

Weirdly, I'm called Alice and my DN is Olive Grin. I wasn't keen on the name Olive when she was first born but it has grown on me since (ha ha). I do think it's becoming quite popular now, Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher's daughter is also an Olive

SleepyCatOnTheMat · 19/08/2013 16:50

I agree Olive is like Margot, but I don't think either is like Alice. Maybe they were once but not any more - Alice has become mainstream.

sleepingbeautiful · 18/08/2013 15:51

Frumpy awful no

buttercrumble · 18/08/2013 09:09

I love it Grin

HahaHarrie · 17/08/2013 23:10

Olives and olive green are my first thoughts, and I'm not a fan of either.

As a name it is growing on me... Alice and Olive sounds sweet together but very close to Alice & Olivia the designers. How about Alice & Clara, Alice & Agnes, Alice & Ottilie, Alice & Iris, Alice & Ava, Alice & Aurelie?

Sorry for not sounding very positive, I think I've been put off by a very contrived, smug, cloying, arty couple with an Olive.

WhyMeWhyNot · 17/08/2013 21:15

Olive was Little Miss Sunshine

Lovely character

I like the name, I'd have it in a flash

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Mumblyboo · 17/08/2013 21:08

Mortified given the reaction it's had on here I'd say its safe from top 20 for the foreseeable future!! I think Alice and olive are the same sort of name... Along with Margot.... Classy but not posh, if that makes sense?

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Ihatepeas · 17/08/2013 20:44

Alice and olive is fabulous!
I would of had olive for dd but dh vetoed. Sob! It's such a cool name!

MortifiedAdams · 17/08/2013 20:14

Mum it was top twenty in the 1920s!!

SleepyCatOnTheMat · 17/08/2013 19:49

Hmmm, I'm not sure what I think of Alice and Olive as a sibset. Alice is quite popular and mainstream whereas Olive is unusual and old lady chic...either of them might end up envying the other. To make them more evenly matched what about:

Alice and Hannah
Alice and Emily (or Emma)
Alice and Elizabeth
Alice and Charlotte
Alice and Lucy
Alice and Chloe
Alice and Matilda
Alice and Rosie
Alice and Bella

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Mumblyboo · 17/08/2013 19:34

I don't think it will ever be a popular name so don't panic.... I actually wanted olive for our dd1 but graciously let dh have final say and he went for Alice... She is 3...... I got dibs on the next name!!! ;)

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chilipeppers · 17/08/2013 17:29

Are you kidding??!

fanjodisfunction · 17/08/2013 17:25

In three words!

My middle name

Little miss sunshine (awesome role model)

Nature, fresh and green

I must admit I hated having olive as my middle name as a kid in the 80s and 90s, but now I see how cool it is. On the buses will only mean something to people older than me, and I'm 32. So means nothing really. Its a name with character rather than all these cutesy 'ie' names.

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 17/08/2013 16:00

Ive wanted Olive for DD2 since I decide to ttc again. And the name is everywhere now, its like shit on a shoe!!

I was exactly the same with Elodie - DM first suggested it 10 fucking years ago and it looks like everyone will have an Elodie before me! Grin

Ihatepeas · 16/08/2013 22:37

Love love love!

ElBombero · 16/08/2013 21:28

Awwwwwww lurve it

MortifiedAdams · 16/08/2013 19:19

This thread is frustrating me Grin

Ive wanted Olive for DD2 since I decide to ttc again. And the name is everywhere now, its like shit on a shoe!!

Chottie · 16/08/2013 19:16

My neighbour's new GD is called Olive

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Mumblyboo · 16/08/2013 17:18

Violet is pretty but looks v similar to violent.... I kinda thought olive would be a marmite name. Any olives out there want to give me their perspective???

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NadiaWadia · 16/08/2013 03:50

Small, green and belonging in a jar.

Olivia, OTOH, is lovely.

cafecito · 15/08/2013 23:58

fabulous former colleague

laravh · 15/08/2013 23:26

My dads ex wife is named olive, bug has always been known as Joyce (middle name), I nearly peed my pants at their wedding when the registrar said 'Olive'!!
So it's a no from me... There's nothing pretty or feminine about it.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 15/08/2013 22:43

On the Buses.

It's a dull ploddy name and a horrid pukey colour quite apart from a foul food.

everlong · 15/08/2013 22:41

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