Help!!!!!! Olivia or Harper????

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I have one week till due date and have no idea which name to choose for our girl, Olivia or Harper 😐 Please help which one?! I know the inevitable beckham connection with Harper and also how common Olivia is but I do love them both

Olivia by a long way. Harper just isn't nice.

They’re very different names, those two! I can’t say I like either of them very much, but I would probably go Harper because there really are too many Olivias in the world now.

Olivia, Harper is awful

Olivia

Olivia

Olivia. Harper is fashionable at the moment but Olivia is classic.

Oddly, 'Harper' makes me think of Menolly, who was a harper in the Pern series of books. I would go with Menolly.

Olivia is lovely, but wildly popular and absolutely everywhere. I personally would avoid it due to popularity, but only you would know if that would bother you...

Olivia, though it's extremely over used, because I just can't say Harper. It will date like Shirley, Kylie etc.

Harlivia. Best of both worlds. Better than Olirper.

Harper Beckham. Stop it.

Not keen on either tbh. Sorry.

Olivia

Harper will forever be associated with the Beckham's and dare I say it? It's become slightly chav.

Olivia wins hands down.

Harper I know none! Olivia is extremely popular

Neither. Both are too common

Sorry OP, but I wouldn't choose either of them, and for the reasons you and PPs mention. Too many Olivias already, and Harper seems copycat and 'trying too hard to be fashionable'.

You're not asking for options, so if I have to vote for either then it would be Olivia. At least it's classic, won't date badly, and doesn't have the obvious celeb link to V&D. Harper Lee - yes, fantastic link, but currently that's not who would spring to mind for many people.

Good luck 🍀

Olivia is no more a classic than Harper is. It’s just an over used name that got popular in the mid 1990’s and has just kept going and going. Both have similar histories with the posh folk, if that’s what you’re after.

Harper's a boys' name where I am (along the lines of Ryder, Hunter, Cooper, etc). DC are at school with 3 boy Harpers!

Having said that, they're all aged 8-10ish, so born exactly before the Beckhams gave it to their girl.

All of a sudden, I don't see ANY boys being given it any more. And I imagine those boys get a lot of, 'isn't that a girl's name?'

I would go with Olivia, if I had to choose (N.B. I would never choose Olivia as it's just too popular). Doesn't matter how classic a name is, if it's strongly associated with a particular time period, it will date.

If it's a vote between the two then definitely Harper.

Olivia has been no. 1 on baby name lists for years and years and that would put me off.

Harper! Everyone is called Olivia!

Olivia

Or something less hackneyed?

1000s of Olivias and 1000s of other people copying Victoria Beckham.

Olivia is overly popular but it is a beautiful classic name. Harper will always be associated with the Beckhams, and why would anyone want to copy their choice of names it wasn't even a first for them Dave Grohl got there before with that name.

The only way Harper is in any way an OK name, is if you got in there before D&V.

And lovely as Olivia is, the world officially has enough.

You can do better, OP - there's a world of lovely girls' names out there.

Great one can claim that they are ever so cultural and named their child after Harper Lee (I know such a woman, whenever she goes into the story of how she named her daughter she tries to make herself sound so culturally superior) but to everyone else-she copied the Beckhams. Her face when another mum came to baby class with another young Harper was an absolute picture as only an hour before she was saying how ‘she had picked something a bit different’ for her daughter.