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 😅)

I have an old aquaintance with a colour as her surname and named her child after a season for the first name and a plant for the second name.

So imagine Summer Rose White. It really is like a dulux paint colour and I feel so sorry for the kid.

It's lovely, your surname isn't green😉

Yeah I was thinking that! Eve would be ok but Eva....it ALWAYS be too soon.

I think it sounds fantastic and didn't make any colour connections.

Olive green maybe.

Olive Brown is such a drab little name. With a boring surname like Brown she needs a first name with a bit more pizazz.

I’m 44, so hardly a ‘younger parent’ and I’ve never heard of On The Buses!

I don’t like olive though … love Olivia.

Now you say it, it does conjure images of quite a droopy person with a droopy name.

There is a woman who wrote a fantastic book about sex birth and motherhood throughout the ages called Petrina Brown, I like the sound of that.

I like Olive Brown, or Ivy Brown

Same age as PP and never heard of on the bus.

I think maybe a cartoon had a wife olive? Maybe.

The WORST name I ever heard or knew of was

Ewan Kerr.

Luckily he owned it but I remember watching the chants and asking my mum what the big kids were shouting and why 🫣

Any child born now wouldn’t have even a Grandparent who remembers On the buses ..and if they do ,will the child care ? There are so many more names that are beautiful that can be associated with far worse memories!! I personally love the name Olive ,it is a beautiful name associated with nature.X

Bobby? (Short for Roberta).

Charlie (Short for Charlize or Charlotte)

Molly (sound unsinkable)...

I think it's fine. If your surname was Green I'd give it a swerve.

I’m 63, so you’re too young. If you were my age and brought up in England (or UK) you’d know who Olive from On the Buses is.

Are you thinking of Olive Oyle, Popeye's significant other?

😂😂

What about Evelyn? Evelyn Brown sounds nice I think.

I am 60 and I genuinely cannot remember this program. Does it really matter though to a child born in 2025 and what was so awful about this character?🤔

Enid
Eliza
Edith
Esther
Esme
Emmie
Clemmie
Martha

One syllable surname calls for 2* syllable first name IMO!

Lovely!

I like it strangely, I think it works well

Someone else who knows who Olive is. 😁

Not a fan of olive at all sorry! I’d go Olivia although painfully overdone!

You need something with flair to go with Brown

Francesca
Anastasia
Carlotta
Annabella
Isabella
Rosanna

Olena Brown - similar but also slightly unique

Sorry that is awful!