Thoughts on the name Olive?

[OpenRobin]

Hi,
Just wanted to hear people's thoughts on the name Olive?

Love it, probably in my top ten.

Absolutely love the name Olive .People referring to a program donkeys years ago is so strange.

Exactly this. I am late 50s and genuinely never watched that program,my children in their 20s have never heard of it ,so a child being called Olive now is so irrelevant 🤦‍♀️

It's awful. Makes me think of a pizza topping that lots of people dislike and Popeye's girlfriend. Plus I just don't like the sound of it.

@Noyokymum , not really. There haven't been any other Olives to associate it with. If you said Olivia I'd think Newton-John, Channon, de Haviland, Colman.
If you'd said Jackie, many would say Kennedy, magazine, Chan, Stewart, Merrick etc . Many of those references might not mean anything to you.

I love it. A million times better than Olivia. There were four Olivia's in my DSs class and three Oliver's.

I love it personally and know two lovely people called olive!

I’m also old enough for it to just conjure up the image of the woman from ‘on the buses’ which is also one of the worst Tv programmes ever made .

Im in my 20s I watched on the buses with grandparents and same the name Olive is unusable for me

It's absolutely awful, so bad that Brenda is better.

Olivia is much nicer.

This set me off again having spent most of yesterday laughing at the Jimberly thread

I always find it odd that people that if a name has a not great connotation it won't matter in a generation or so as if no one has any reference to anything that was in general culture unless it literally happened in their lifetime. Olive is a prime example of this, there's no guarantee negative connotations will be wiped out in a generation or so.

Ugly so ugly

I hate it. It was my mother's name and my grandmother's name and my middle name. I would have preferred Olivia.

me three!

A gen Z I know, Olivia, has just changed her name to Olive on her Instagram profile. I was taken aback, TBH, as Olive sounds blunt and makes me think of On The Buses. Olivia, while very popular, has an elegance about it. The change may indicate an Olive renaissance though.

Olive is a prime example of this, there's no guarantee negative connotations will be wiped out in a generation or so.

Unless it is no longer used for this 🫒?!

Olivia has a much nicer sound.

Olivia also sounds lovely in other languages - Olive does not!

Olive, along with Oliver are both awful names.

Horrible name.

This is the character Olive from On the Buses.

Jimberlee-Ollie

Also Olive Oyl from the cartoon- too many associations!

My DD is friends with an Olivia whose nickname is Olive. It's all she's ever known by.