Do you like the name Olive?

[SpookyyPumpkinss]

Or do you prefer Alice?

DD1 is Olivia and gets called Olive all the time. I never used to like it but think it's kinda cute now.

I prefer Alice (or Olivia).

Olive = food to me

Not Olive! Think of all the jokes that could be made up...

Olive is grim. Sorry. I do know an Olivette, which is cute.

Olive? As in a black or green oily olive? Really?!

I love Olive. I like Alice

As in Olive Oyl, Popeyes girlfriend

Alice is lovely. Olive is a bit grim, very old fashioned and not only something you eat but an ugly colour.

I suspect Olive will date, as much as I like it. It was out of fashion for close to a century, and will likely have a burst of popularity now/over the next few years, before returning too its out-of-fashion status.

Alice, on the other hand, is timeless.

Alice. It's classic.
Olive to me is the dinner lady in the Bad Street Kids

bash street kids in the Beano

Don’t you think of an olive? To me it’s like calling a child onion or caper? But maybe that’s just me...

Alice is much nicer!

Not keen at all on Olive. For me it is a really harsh sounding name.

I prefer Alice

I like Olive.

I love watching ...the other reindeer in December.

Makes me think of popeye.

I had an aunty Olive. She had a blue rinse. Having said that I quite like the name, although you might as well call a child Caper or Anchovy.

@pipilangstrumpf definitely different... There's olive trees, etc. so it's a bit like Willow.

Olive still sounds very old-fashioned to me and not in a good way. There's no logical reason why it shouldn't have come back along with other names of the same vintage like Elsie, but to me it's one of the ones that doesn't feel very likely to become popular again, like Edna or Gladys. Olivia is much prettier in my opinion, although it's so popular I can see that could be a bit of a drawback. And yes, I do like Alice - very much!

Sorry. No.

Another On The Busses fan!

This was my grandma's name. I have to say it always seemed like a pretty terrible name to me but I know a few babies called it now, along with other mothball chic names of that generation. I like Olivia, and don't come across many, despite the name charts

My great Nana was named Olive, I think it’s beautiful.

I never met her, she died years before I was born but I am told she was one of the softest, gentlest and most kind ladies you could meet.

One thing that can be said in favour of the name Olive is that it's unlikely to be popular (if the straw poll on this thread is anything to go by).

Alice is a lovely, classic name. Nicer still because it doesn't end in A, isn't a female version of a boys name and isn't named after a flower or a virtue. It's a female name that is good for a child or a woman and it is classless. Your DD could be anything she wants to be without her name seeking out of place.

Also Olive lends itself to all sorts of crude jokes later...

Just think of On The Buses, like others have said