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 😅)

Can’t do Eva Brown. Sounds too much like Eva Braun.

No it doesn’t. As I said, younger parents won’t know who it is but for me Olive will forever be a particular character, not that it matters one iota. I remember when, I think it was Drew Barrymore or Isla Fisher, called their daughter Olive I was genuinely shocked. I’ve got used to it more now though as it seems to have got more popular with younger generations. Oh I now remember Marie Osmond having Olive as her actual first name and that shocked me as well lol. It’s only because it had such awful dreary connotations back in the 60s/70s. It’s quite trendy now.

Charlie Brown, as in Snoppy?

Bobby Brown as in the make up range?

I have a very nice acquaintance called Harriet Brown and that’s a good name. If my surname was Brown I’d want something a bit more ornate like Seraphina Brown 😃

Apologies I’ve read backwards and see this has been raised already!

I do like Olive though .

https://images.app.goo.gl/x73pNQDMm3Mqh17VA

olive on the busses

@BunnyLake younger parents? I had DD at 43!

I went to school with a Hazel Brown - no one seemed to think that was odd. Olive’s aren’t brown anyway.

If your surname was green or black you might have a point but brown is fine and olive is a cute name

Olive is lovely. And sounds fine with the surname.

One of my teachers at primary school was called Joy Moody.

And I also know of a:
Holly Wood
Michael Jackson
Goldie Gold

Or the late Whitney Houston’s husband.

Charlie Brown, as in Snoppy?

….and Cockney rhyming slang for “clown” (ie wally)?

Violet

Alba?

Rose

Yes or Olive Oyl from Popeye. It's not a nice name.

I had my son at 43 too. I’m 63. Anyone who is having a baby now is going to be a darn sight younger than I am.

@MrsB2019x

So all switch to your name!

No need to be constrained

Dorothy - Dot, Dottie
Alice
Catherine. - Kate , Katie
Laura
Tabitha
Wendy
Ursula

I like Olive (although it's very popular!) but I think Olive Brown doesn't work

Olympia (Oly) Brown
Ophelia Brown
Avalon Brown
Aoife Brown
Rosa Brown

Olivia?

Yes, but no one is going to be having a baby at 63, are they? The ‘younger parents’ comment makes it sound like only parents in their 20s will not have heard of On the Buses, but actually it’s pretty unlikely anyone having a baby now will have heard of it,
or be familiar with the character.

Any child born now wouldn’t have even a Grandparent who remembers On the buses

Of course they will! Most people I know don't become grandparents until at least late fifties/sixties and people of that age will remember On the Buses (not that that should affect the name choice).

Marjorie

Olive Oyl

In all seriousness, Connie