Olive

[agirlandherdog1234]

Love it. But does it just blend in with the ridiculously popular Olivia? Thoughts?

This is wild 🤣 Olive is an actual name and has been for centuries.

Olive is a vintage name that used to be extremely popular!

It's also been an ugly little oily fruit for centuries.

How about Clementine or Sultana?

Olive Oil was (is?) Popeye’s girlfriend. Google it.

I love Olive.

To be fair my DD's name is always appearing on lists of marmite baby names but I just knew I wanted it. It was very rare when I named her but has had a little tiny bump in the last few years (she is an adult now).
There have def been mentions of her name on threads on here and ppl have had differing opinions (some negative for sure) but I don't like their children's names either.

But I 100% love it and knew it was for her and it sounds like that is how you feel about Olive.
You can't please everyone-please yourself!!!!

Omg 🤣🫤
Every name gets ridiculed on here for one reason or another it seems

This is so true!! Thank you. Every name gets ridiculed on here

Yes it has been, but I feel like this is the reason it is feeling fashionable again.

But it is a perfectly acceptable name - it's just you did ask in the post I quoted why people don't like it. That's just explaining.

Name preferences will always be heavily dependent on the associations and tastes of the individual, so all they can really do is explain what their associations are.

This is true - and there also tend to be groups who favour certain types of names.

Some threads I now just don't even click on as I know they aren't my bag and couldn't begin to choose between the op's suggestions because they are simply from a group of names I really don't click with, so leave it to those who like some but not others to debate the pros and cons.

Names will always be like that.

I agree it's in the same category as Beryl and Gladys (and Phyllis, Mavis, and other drab names).

The purpose of my post was to see what people's thoughts on it blending in with Olivia was, really.

Well I think both will get Liv.

I thought that and then I met a couple of adorable little ones. I still don’t really like it but it works very well and I much prefer it to Olivia.

It blends in with Olivia but Olivia is x1000 nicer despite its popularity and could shorten to Olive anyway

I don't like anything that sounds like "liver". So I don't like Olive, Oliver or Olivia...or Liverpool!

Olive Oyl to me but I’m ancient

not keen but I know quite a few little Olives. It’s definitely “trendy” so that in itself would put me off

I know a kid called Kale!

If it helps he’s a little shit. Probably quite bitter and angry about his name now I think of it.

Poor Kale.

Knew it! It just struck me as the right kind of sound to lend itself to a name!

It doesn't blend in with Olivia but it's a small, green food. I don't like it personally, sorry. It will always be the name of a food to me, not a person.

Same, hahaha!

I don’t like it at all, but then I don’t like olives.

I know a lovely kale. He is a firefighter and an absolute sweetheart, but I don’t think he likes his name very much.

At least a grape or raisin are sweet!

An olive 🫒 is bitter, salty and slimy….

I find Olive to be such an ugly name. Maybe it’s the Popeye association for me.
Whereas I don’t think Olivia is ugly at all.
I don’t think the names are similar, they give off very different vibes to me.