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I can’t have Olive can I :(

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MrsB2019x · 27/09/2024 20:16

18 weeks with a baby girl.
I adore the name Olive but our surname is Brown.
Olive Brown.
It’s a bit too Dulux colour chart isn’t it :(

Any other suggestions welcome! (Or change my mind and convince me Olive Brown isn’t ridiculous 😅)

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Bournetilly · 28/09/2024 02:15

Olive is lovely. There’s nothing wrong with Olive Brown, kids wouldn’t associate Olive with a colour.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 28/09/2024 02:10

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 01:02

Which name @IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle?

The one the thread is about- Olive.

OpalGoose · 28/09/2024 02:01

Has anyone suggested Georgia yet?

Pinkissmart · 28/09/2024 01:57

Love Olive, but also:

Livia
Lidia
Gia
Serefina
Saffron
Hazel
Shaina
Eloise

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/09/2024 01:55

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:58

I married a man with a very pedestrian name (Jones).

I didn't change my name.

Our daughter is called Cecily Alexandra Jones.

Our son Llewellyn Kingdom Jones.

Olive Brown is of a similar and brilliant ilk.

Lovely names but not something I would share on an unsecure chat forum. Especially one that regularly gets threads pinched by the tabloids, you might want to report your post to MN to get it removed, your kids will thank you later.

Discombobulated2024 · 28/09/2024 01:43

MrsB2019x · 27/09/2024 20:50

We’re married so have the same surname

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Most of my friends are married. None of them have changed their names. It’s not compulsory

SusiSlippers · 28/09/2024 01:36

There are millions of beautiful girls names to choose from and you chose Olive! Why?

My next door neighbours constantly yapping, black Gremlin (French bulldog) is called Olive -not that it recognises its name because it’s shoved out the garden in all winds and weathers and the RSPCA couldn’t give a toss - may have influenced my distain at the name Olive.

What about Olivia? Much better

TheDeepLemonHelper · 28/09/2024 01:31

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Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 01:02

Which name @IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle?

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 28/09/2024 00:59

PanettoneSoprano · 28/09/2024 00:34

I agree

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I'd feel sorry for a child lumbered with such an ugly name.

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:58

I married a man with a very pedestrian name (Jones).

I didn't change my name.

Our daughter is called Cecily Alexandra Jones.

Our son Llewellyn Kingdom Jones.

Olive Brown is of a similar and brilliant ilk.

TheDeepLemonHelper · 28/09/2024 00:57

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Icantstaymarriedtoyoudavid · 28/09/2024 00:57

or a 2024 contemporary version of the name - like Olive Gray

Actress, daughter of Carrie and David Grant, born 1994, had a part in Fleabag, and Eastenders.

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:53

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/09/2024 00:48

Olive Brown would be the kind dependent one at Mallory Towers who would make Daryl feel bad for losing her temper.

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That's exactly who Olive Brown would be.

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/09/2024 00:48

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:04

Olive Brown is indeed a 'good egg' name.

Olive Brown is brilliant.

She'll be brilliant.

I'll be annoyed if you don't @MrsB2019x.

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Olive Brown would be the kind dependent one at Mallory Towers who would make Daryl feel bad for losing her temper.

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/09/2024 00:47

LikeWhoUsesTypewritersAnyway · 27/09/2024 23:04

Do the younger generation REALLY laugh at names like Debbie and Tracy? Confused

I doubt it.

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I wouldnt say "laugh at" but (I am 51) my generation wouldnt call our kids Jeanette, Jean, Patricia, Marian, Tina, Linda etc as those were the names our mothers had so were "old fashioned". Same as my kids wouldnt call their kids Emma, Ruth, Susan, Jane, Debbie, Tracey, Sharon etc as those are my generations names.

ODFOx · 28/09/2024 00:45

Olive Brown is absolutely fine.
If your surname was Green I'd be naysaying.
She'll be Libby or Liv by the time she's 13 anyway, and they are both great with Brown 🙂

PanettoneSoprano · 28/09/2024 00:34

MissSkegness1951 · 27/09/2024 20:53

Olive Brown is a lovely name .

I agree

Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:07

And 'On The Buses' is a bit ancient as a reference even for me at 51.

I'm not sure anyone of childbearing age has ever even heard of it.

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Olive Brown is indeed a 'good egg' name.

Olive Brown is brilliant.

She'll be brilliant.

I'll be annoyed if you don't @MrsB2019x.

TheDeepLemonHelper · 28/09/2024 00:02

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Gloriana1 · 28/09/2024 00:02

It rolls off the tongue and sounds like a heroine in a 1920s mystery.

Do it @MrsB2019x!

Gloriana1 · 27/09/2024 23:57

Well I adore Olive Brown.

It's gorgeous.

Why wouldn't you?

Bagpuss2022 · 27/09/2024 23:50

Bumcake · 27/09/2024 23:46

Jayden?

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Very similar and it always comes up on threads about “naughty boys” etc
it’s Tyler

RogueFemale · 27/09/2024 23:48

For me, the name Olive Brown sounds horribly dowdy. Although Olivia is prettier, Olivia is the #1 most popular UK girl name.

With Brown as a surname, avoid colour first names. A friend, surname Brown, called her daughter Rosie. Just sounds like a nasty bruise.

How about Pandora, or Serena.

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