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 😅)

Exactly 🙄

My Grandma was a Bertha. Most adorable gorgeous person. From two of the names that were given to her 4 sisters and the fact there were a lot of brothers and my Grandma was told the wrong day for her birthday I can only conclude my Great-grandma had a lot on her plate and couldn't come up with anything else. She didn't even give my poor Grandma a middle name. Just plain Bertha

Olive Brown is absolutely gorgeous. She will be her own person regardless of what anonymous people think.X

The juvenile in me is laughing that Pooeys has quoted Bumcake in a response.

Nice name but a bit Dot Cotton's cousin.

Yes it's almost as if it's set up that way lol

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Yes it's almost as if it's set up that way!

And yet, its been mentioned on here many times, so clearly a lot of people remember it or at least are aware of the character.

I actually felt so sorry for Olive, she was treated appallingly by her husband and his friends, and was ridiculed for how she looked. If she had been a much stronger "up yours" character it might be different, but the character was supposed to be dowdy and dreary because of course that made it ok to verbally abuse a woman.

I agree. I barely remember On The Buses as I was little when it was on but I do remember cringing at the way the main female character was treated, even as a child watching reruns. It was so misogynistic when I come to think about it now.

The younger generation likes the name Olive and I think that’s all that matters. They all laugh at names like Debbie, Tracy etc!

Saying it out loud sounds like ‘I love brown’ so yeah it might not be the best choice, OP!

If only your surname was Branch 😄

Olivia 'may' be unimaginative, but it's heaps better than the naff and drab name Olive. I would never inflict that name on a child! 😬

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Oh Arthur!

Yes agree. Olive is a lovely name.

Do the younger generation REALLY laugh at names like Debbie and Tracy?

I doubt it.

I love it. Olive Brown has a certain je ne sais quoi :)

Agree to disagree,I think Olivia is naff and boring 🙄

Someone in my daughters graduating class was called Autumn Brown which I thought was lovely.
gp for it if you love it.

Agree to disagree yes. I think the name Olive is hideous.

Olive Beamish was an Irish suffragette but she used a pseudonym when arrested. Was it Phyllis?

Yes, you’ve said. Are you called Olivia?

On the buses…. It must say something that so many of us instantly think of a character from a sitcom that ended in 1973. Olivia is nice.

Even my friends and I laugh about those names now as they are so 1970s. Also Kevin.

Yeah, many people will think of the colour rather than the fruit - so it does sound very paint chart, sorry. Brown is a tricky surname for that.

Is it the style of Olive you like or the sound?
Polly has both I think (although it’s not my personal taste) . Or if it’s just the retro style you like then there’s loads of options- maybe Florence, Josephine, Mabel, Sybil, Edith, Alma, Iris or Sylvie/Sylvia?