Oliver nicknames

[JillyGiraffe]

Are there any nicknames for Oliver, other than Ollie?!

I do understand what you mean - when I was at school we had 5 C/Katherines in my all girls class of 28 (luckily a couple went by Kate or Katie, but yes surnames had to be used too).

But I agree with those who’ve said things have changed so much and the popular names just aren’t used with such high frequency anymore. I suspect even in an all boys prep/public school (where the “classic” popular boys names tend to be used more often than the average imo) - there is unlikely to be more than 2 Olivers in a class at most (or 2 Thomas’s, 2 Williams, 2 Georges etc). 5 in a class of any name would be a real statistical anomaly these days, thankfully.

So I wouldn’t let popularity put you off using it OP -for example at my DC’s primary school, there’s not currently a single Oliver! There tends to be more Theo, Leo type names, but rarely more than 1 per class- it’s just bad luck if a name does get repeated.

I love that! Too Many Daves is my FAVOURITE!!

My Oliver has always been the only Oliver in his year at nursery and school classes.

My eldest had no Olivers either.

Love that!

I’ve got a grown up Oliver. I call him Ollie, his dad calls him Ol, his brother calls him Bairn (grandparents from the north east), when his brother was a toddler he called him Lobbiler because he couldn’t pronounce it correctly and when he was tiny I called him Oliver Boo or Ollie Bob, his school friends called him by his initials (so many Olivers) and he calls himself Oliver at work. I’m biased but I think it’s a gorgeous name.

My Oliver is usually a full Oliver but within family Olio and Olipop. He is not an Oli.

My Oliver is Ollie or Bob or Bobbie , even had Bob on some of his sports shirts 🤣 is stems from Ollie Bob

Lolly, Liv, olakzander, ollington, Ver, olive, pizza, curly, jonjoe...

It could be anything really. You need to meet the kid first and it will come naturally.

In a custom dating from medieval times, people used to add an affectionate “mine” before first names starting with a vowel, and they often dropped syllables as well. Thus “mine Oliver” led to “Noll”;

Ooh I like that 😁

I thought it was quite witty for a bunch of teenagers tbh 😂

My brother, who is now 43, is Oliver and has only ever been called that. Occasionally he might get Ol, but even his mates and playing footy etc, it was still the full Oliver.

I did, however, spend our whole childhood calling him Orville!

My Oliver is;
olive
blob
ollie
ol
ollinge

if he gets called Oliver he knows it’s serious. 30 next year 🤣

I think Lol also used to be a short form for Oliver.
I had an uncle Lol.

My nephew is called Oliver and all he gets called is either -
Ollie Wolly woo war
pr
ollie wolly poo par 😂

A nickname can be literally anything. It doesn’t need to be related to the given name.

Fill your boots.

I know a VW 😂 started as Olly, somehow went from that to Ollo, to Polo, to VW. Started as a drunken joke nearly 20years ago and has well and truly stuck!

Yes.... lately I keep calling my daughter Madam Fartacus.
Nicknames are brilliant !