I can’t have Olive can I :(

[MrsB2019x]

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 😅)

Olive was the ugly one from on the buses.

Wait! There was an Olive in On the Buses? That is BRAND NEW INFORMATION!!

@KezzaMucklowe

theres everything wrong with Olive brown

its worse than Willow Green or Clementine Orange, at least they describe nice colors.

@SheilaFentiman

Only if you watched it with ear defenders on, she was one of the main characters!

Nope completely disagree. I think it's nice. Not everyone in rl will over analyse someone's name the way they do on here.
Op if you like it go for it.

Nope completely disagree. I think it's nice. Not everyone in rl will over analyse someone's name the way they do on here.
Op if you like it go for it.

I agree with this tbh.

We thought about how names sounded with the surname, did the initials work.

Think that was it!

What about Ava instead? 😉😂

I went to infants' school with a Teresa Green. I'm utterly convinced her parents did it deliberately.

@AngelicKaty

well that would make them a right pair of twats wouldn't it!!

poor kid.

I love all those names so I am clearly out of step with the times!

Have met a few Olives recently. Their parents are intelligent, and mainly professional people who really wouldn’t care about a program back in the 70s !

Flora?
Iris?
Stella?
Mabel?
Rosa?
Imogen?
Annabel?

AngelicKaty · Yesterday 20:51
I went to infants' school with a Teresa Green. I'm utterly convinced her parents did it deliberately.

There was one at my school too! (A Teresa Green!) I wonder if we went to the same school! (Secondary it was. Late 1970s/early 1980s.)

No, mine was primary school, 1966. Glad my friend's parents weren't the only "dafties". 😂

😆

I’ve never really understood the name Olive. Flowery names - Rose, Lily, Daisy - make sense. But who wants to be named after an olive?

Agree - also they are not pretty to look at and are bitter to taste.

They are a type of fruit called a drupe, or stone fruit, and are related to mangoes, cherries, peaches, almonds, and pistachios.

What about Mango or Pistachio? Cherry and Peach is quite sweet though.

Evidently the name comes from the Latin word for olive tree (Oliva) and is associated with peace (from the bible).