Olive as a boys name?

[Gypsophiladaisy]

I really love Olive as a boys name as a twist on Oliver thta I also like but is far too popular for me to ever use. However, I am aware its wayyyy more common as a girls name. Even though I have only ever heard of girls with this name, it sounds far more unisex to me and I would love to use it but wouldn't want negative reactions to it. Its so annoying that boys names can be used for girls but not the other way round!

I'm not sure why I like it so much (and I prefer it as a boys name than a girls name), but here are other names I like in case anyone has alternatives of suggestions for both boys and girls that would suit my style!

Eliza, Florence, Lottie, Tilliah, Grace (love the nickname grey for b+gs)
Greyson, Olive, Ezra

Thank you!!!

Ezra is nice and is a boys name. Maybe softer names like Jonah, Arlo etc. Or call him Oliver which is a nice name for a boy then he’ll have ‘olive’ in his name.

Ludicrous. Don't lumber your kid with this please. And is Tilliah even a name?

I love the name Olive, but for a girl. Please don’t give that name to a boy, unless you’re wanting to create confusion and open him up to potentially massive amounts of teasing. I agree with you that Oliver is just way too popular though.
How about Jonah, Rafferty, Beau, Dexter or Milo?

No Olive is definitely a girls name

It is a girl's name.

You could go for Olav, Olly etc.

Oh behalf of your voiceless son, please don't call him olive. You might think it's cool but he won't and neither will his peers.

He wouldn't thank your for it at a school, believe me.

It is a girl's name. Shame, but that's how it is. It'll be a complete pain in the arse for him. "No, not Oliver I did mean Olive, yes I know it's usually a girl's name..." x1000. You might like Theo, Alex, Kit, Max, Frank, Seth.

You cannot call a bit Olive.

Ezra is nice.

I like Florence and Grace too.

But they're all popular, so if that bothers you maybe not suitable?

What about:

Oscar
Ivo
Rowan

Alice
Iris
Ottilie

No, Olive has only ever been used for girls afaik.
Eliza is nice as is Charlotte (not Lottie as a given name). Ezra and Florence are ok. I don’t like Greyson or Tilliah.
I don’t really understand your like for Grey - it’s analogous to depressing to me! If you like Ezra, what about Isaac? The opposite to grey and depressing, it means ‘he will laugh’.

Olive is definitely a girl's name and reminds me of On the Buses.

Great idea to call your son Olive! Reminds me of A Boy Named Sue where his father named him Sue to toughen him up because he knew he’d get bullied and beaten all the time.

That's like calling a little girl Craig, you can't do it OP

Strong 'Boy named Sue' vibes...

Olive.

Fuck me this is pure mumsnettery. Please stop it.

Just call him jemima or dolly that would be just as bad

Aside from the teasing, he will probably have a life of correcting people who assume it should be Oliver and that the R has been missed off the end somehow - that's if he reaches adulthood without changing it himself/ telling people to call him Olly anyway.

Oh please come on, why would you do that to a kid?

No. No. No. You are setting the poor kid up for a lifetime of bullying and misery.

If you want your child to be bullied throughout school go right ahead

99/100 name threads on here are people asking about stupid names. It seems to be a competition on who can have the most ridiculous name nowadays

Cruel.

That is one way to ensure the boy will have a hard life. Why would you do that to your own child? If he is male, don't give him a female name

I thought of A Boy Named Sue too 😁. Dd2 used to be weirdly obsessed with that song !

Oh for goodness sake no. That’s like that poor wee girl called Richard I once saw on TikTok!!

OP, Olive is a bit more than wayyyy more common as a girl's name because it IS a girl's name
Don't do it.