Olive

[minkersmum]

Thoughts on Olive. DD1 Iris. Iris and Olive?

I've had mixed responses from everyone i know... on the buses.. popeye... etc but to me its a classy old ladies name and i like it!!

WDYT??

'Tis my mother's name (and that of two of her friends) and they all hate it because of its very negative connotations. All Olives in the media - Olive Oyl, Olive in On The Buses - are a combination of plain and gormless.

But I get the sense from other threads that on MN the pendulum is swinging away from Olivia (a much prettier-sounding name but ubiquitous in this neck of the woods, where every prep school has three per class) and towards Olive.

Of the retro names, I prefer the flowers - Violet and Primrose - and others such as Maud and Edith.

If I could only disassociate the name Olive and this face I think I might quite like it. Love Iris though

prefer olivia to olive tbh

alienbump - exactly. My mother had never liked her name and that, for her, was the final straw!

I really like both of them.

I love the name Olive and if this baby is a girl (24wks pg) its going to be her middle name. I'm not keen on Olivia though.

I hadn't even thought of Olive Oyl - Olive it reminds me of olive groves and sitting in the sunshine.

I like Olive, DH doesn't so that was that for us.

DD2 has Enid in her name after my grandmother, who was initially appalled but later told my mum that after 90 years of hating her name she loved it. My only regret is not giving it to DD1 so Gran could have enjoyed her name a little longer!

I like Agnes too.

You shouldn't worry about negative associations now - after a while Olive will only be your DD and everyone else will just have her name.

Hi

I personally dont like Olive but really like Olivia.

Iris is a pretty name but I dont see Olive in the same light

I know three baby Olives, it is very now in my circles
Personally I think it sounds a bit drab so for those two reasons would say no
I like Iris, ish and like Olivia

yuc can't stand it, its so dull.

perpendicular hi sorry yes in response to anouk, i love the way it looks and it actually makes me think of a wee eskimo baby and thats how my baby looks ... however it doesn't sound nice when i say it (maybe because i have a scottish accent) and makes me think 'a nouk and cranny' IYKWIM, shame beacause it looks lovely.

Loving Olive and also talking about Yula. I know one child called Yula and always loved the originality of the name. Only thing holding me back from Olive is the negative look on some peoples faces when i say we are considering it.

no. Not classy

Olivia has been in the top five baby names lots in the last 6-7 years....

... Olive is so much better.

i love olive wanted it for dd2 but everyone pooh pooohed it (on the buses). ended up with rose.

I like it a lot. And I'm getting a bit tired of names ending in 'ia'. Olive is pretty and yet a bit stronger and cooler than Olivia. Which is pretty but in a very flouncey girly way.

Olive and Iris sounds lovely.

I like names like Dulcie, Lois, Mabel, Hazel and my friends would all turn up their noses. Don't worry about people who say eeeeeooooo. They're just not feeeeeeeeling that Olive is more fashionable than Olivia.

Don't like it, sorry.

It's my middle name, I hated it growing up, all the Popeye stuff got really boring.

I know someone who has an Iris and an Edith
my grandmother was called Olive Muriel which I just love.

but I'm not massively keen on Olive, even though I do have a bit of a penchant for old lady names (I LOVE Iris)

i always quite like Myrtle, prob because of a fab old family friend we had. she used to look after the elephants at London Zoo.

I'm not keen on it because it sounds round. Does that sound mad?

Better than Olivia though.

I love Olive. Was on our list for dd1. And goes with Iris beautifully. Go for it!

Sacha Baron-Cohen and his Australian-actress wife-whose-name-escapes-me have a bay called Olive.

Not my cup of tea for a name but have heard worse!

sorry - baby not bay

Yes. Definitely.