Are there too many Olivers?

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It was so helpful yesterday to talk about girls names - that I thought I'd pose the question of boys names today!

My favourite name for years has been Oliver - and was fixated on the musical when I was a kid. However, looking at the baby names list - I can see it is enormously popular. Is that a bad thing or a good thing?

Do you all know a lot of Olivers?

Quite a few of my friends have babies already - but there are no Olivers yet...so I really can't decide.

Thanks again for your help.

It depends on where you live. I don't know any Olivers around here.

I have an Oliver 2.7 and I also loved the name for years, I don't know any other Olivers. What about Oscar as an alternative?

My Oliver was the only Oliver at his nursery and is the only Oliver in his year at school. He knows one older Oliver at school and that's it. He is in year 1. He will only answer to 'Ollie' though .

Yes there are.

I don't know any Olivers, but it is quite popular generally speaking. I couldn't use it cos surname starts with D, and I didn't think Overdose would be a good nickname.