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 😅)

It's like Beryl, Vera, Bertha.
I think Beryl is overdue to have a resurgence.

No, are you?

Beryl and Bertha?! 😂

Eva Brown? Seriously?

Eva Brown? Seriously?!

Eva Braun. Look her up.

😂

Probably 🤔

I quite like the name Olive although I always tried to avoid a name which would lend itself to an obvious nickname The first thing I thought of was Olive oil & the possibility of going through school being called oily 😳

But On The Buses is a classic, like a vintage champagne.

I agree that a plain surname can lend itself to a more distinctive forename. Melanie Brown’s daughter is called Phoenix, for example. Thats a pretty big name to make fit, but more impactful than a plain name with a common surname.

Unfortunately Olive does always remind me of Olive from On the Buses (I'm late 50's). I do like it as a name but wouldn't pair it with Brown. What about Iris?

If it's fashionable avoid it would be my advice. It will soon go out of fashion again and she'll be stuck with a dated name.

I've never been close to my mother and we don't get on, but I have to thank her for giving me and my siblings classic names back in the 60s when names like Barry, Carol, Tina, Karen, Nigel, Kevin and Tracy were fashionable. Nice enough names but very dated.

I just can't see Iris as a beautiful flower then though - but the coloured part of the eye, next to Brown.

I agree with others, Olive Brown is a very dull name, if you really want Olive have that as a middle name.

Bertha makes me think of this. It's even worse than I remembered

Black pudding Bertha- she's the queen of Northern Soul.

I think Olive is a lovely name but agree with the surname it’s a bit much.
My now 23 year old has a name I really didn’t want and now he’s an adult it just isn’t him so goes by a nickname I wish I had put my foot down. Think one of the naughty boy “chav” names a few years ago he is so not that name he’s more of a cord with shirts and bookish.

@IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle 😆

I'm dying to know what that name is now! 😆

Jayden?

Olive oil popeye

Well Lynda Snell's step daughter in The Archers is Coriander. Coriander is more euphonious than Olive.

For me, the name Olive Brown sounds horribly dowdy. Although Olivia is prettier, Olivia is the #1 most popular UK girl name.

With Brown as a surname, avoid colour first names. A friend, surname Brown, called her daughter Rosie. Just sounds like a nasty bruise.

How about Pandora, or Serena.

Very similar and it always comes up on threads about “naughty boys” etc
it’s Tyler

Well I adore Olive Brown.

It's gorgeous.

Why wouldn't you?

It rolls off the tongue and sounds like a heroine in a 1920s mystery.

Do it @MrsB2019x!