Message: "Olive" - Behind the Name

Olive

by xPrincess27x

6/25/2009, 5:48 AM

WDYTO Olive for a girl? Is it too old lady-ish? Any middle name suggestions?

Thank you

#Olive

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- lynsey123

6/26/2009, 12:06 PM

olivie

- number1212

6/25/2009, 5:01 PM

I don't really like it. I think of the fruit and of Olive Oyl.

- Zuchinni +2

6/25/2009, 3:13 PM

Better than Olivia by far and more antique(m)

As mainstream as Olivia is, I still find it matronly.

I love olive trees and what they symbolise is lovely too. Olive, is simple, sweet and funky and I like it very much.

While it's fine to only find it food like (I can understand that) I don't see how olive being a noun (colour, tree and food item) prevents it from being a "name". It's been used as a name for a long time. I haven't heard anything quite so ridiculous I'm sorry. Using that logic would mean many long used noun names would be non names too.

- Guinevere (vomiting) +1

6/25/2009, 7:06 PM

I agree.

Olive is a great name. I really can't find fault with it.

Sadly, I hate the taste of Olives, so using Olive as a name for a future daughter and then calling her namesake disgusting [which it is to me!] might not work. But it sounds great! :D

- Zuchinni

6/25/2009, 9:23 PM

I don't like the fruit either. It's nasty!

Just say it was for the beautiful tree and what it signifies ;) But, I understand. I don't touch olives myself. Yucky. Although, the oil is fine.

- Chanel

6/25/2009, 2:25 PM

I love it, but I hate Olivia for some weird reason. I like Olive paired with either a longer feminine name (Olive Alexandra, Olive Thomasina, Olive Tabitha, Olive Paloma, Olive Penelope, Olive Sabrina), or another short old-fashioned name (Olive Hazel, Olive Beatrix, Olive Alice)

- KrisMichelle

6/25/2009, 12:32 PM

I am in love with Olive! If only DH would come around, lol. To me, Olive is earthy and warm. It is also my favorite color. I really haven't thought of combos too much since DH hates it. Here are a few off the top of my head.

Olive Rosamund
Olive Eleanor
Olive Miriam
Olive Bernadette
Olive Melisande
Olive Virginia

I really want to put Olive Rosemary, but that's very foodie. =) I do really like it, though.

- TheDreadedSockMonkey

6/25/2009, 8:42 AM

It's a food, not a name. I think Olivia is prettier.

- Avis

6/25/2009, 8:03 AM

I love it! Maybe not as a first name, but definitely as a middle name. It definitely has an older feel, but it really hit its popularity peak in the 1920s (in the USA at least). There's not a ton of Olives around... so I don't think it's too old-ladyish anymore.

Also, olives are symbolically so important; it's a nice connotation.

- Andromache (Hannah Ruth)

6/25/2009, 7:03 AM

I like it

I think it more youthful than old lady-ish.

- Murasaki (lady murasaki) +3

6/25/2009, 6:03 AM

is a delicios snack

Sorry, but this name is just too "foody" for me.

- namebug +2

6/25/2009, 2:59 PM

Sibset: Olive & Apple =)

I'm only kidding. And I don't like or support anyone sporting the name Apple.

Despite the fact that Olive sounds foody (it does) I still like it.

- Murasaki (nsi) (guest)

6/26/2009, 7:39 AM

Lol. Apple is a bit of a GP. So is Plum. For some reason, they feel less foody than Olive, which immediately conveys to me images of martinis, or platters of hors d'oeuvres.

- Guinevere (vomiting)

6/25/2009, 7:07 PM

I've always loved the idea of Olive and Hazel. They go together well. :)

- Chrysanthemum (hayleyskye)

6/25/2009, 5:54 AM

I know a little girl named Olive (shes almost 2) her full name is Olive Elizabeth Jean Surname.

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