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They both feel clunky to me personally. But they go well together.

I like both of them, but wouldn't use them. Sometimes these names feel weird to me because, while I'd really like to see them used, I would really not liked to be called these names. They are fine for someone else. Olive seems to have shown signs of a comeback in the 2000s and early 2010s but it never happened so it feels a bit ex-fad-ish to me which is not good. Also Olive Oyl and many many people hate olives (I love them) so I could see how many people would hate this name. Hilda is cute it makes me think of the aunt of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and I can see it coming back. Tilda is already trendy. As sisters they seem very old fashioned but okay.

Hilda just doesn’t do it for me, I don’t like the sound or look of it. Olive is a recent like of mine and I have to admit, I actually really, really like it now.

I don't see the appeal of Hilda - she sounds like a brawny peasant character in an 1880s German opera meant to inspire a sense of nationalism in the newly formed nation (I do like Hildegard, though, but that's mostly due to the association with Hildegard of Bingen). Olive is better than Olivia, but it's still... oily. I don't think they go together stylistically.

This message was edited 8/16/2020, 1:26 AM

I think Hilda is really cute and unexpected. Olive is lovely and I much prefer it to Olivia.

This is exactly how I feel. I love Olive with all my heart. It's quirky cute, imo. I would 100% use it if my boyfriend didn't have a budgie named that, lol. I'm not 100% on Hilda, but I do like it, and honestly, I've really warmed up to it lately. I think Hilda and Olive would sound really cute together. The nns Hilly & Olly would be sooooooooooo cute.

I obviously love Hilda as it's my eldest second middle name. Sometimes I wish I'd used it as a first name as I do really love it.

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Olive not so much. It was my great+ grandmothers name but I still don't love it.

I like Olive. I would definitely have Hilda go by Hildie.

They do fit as a sister set.

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I don’t get why everyone likes Olive. It’s the name of a vegetable - are her siblings named Radish and Asparagus?

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Hilda is a bit of a GP. Sure, it’s old-fashioned, but I don’t really see it as ugly as people say it is.

Olive was great grandmother’s name. Due to medical negligence Olive died before I was born but everyone on both sides of my family have said what an amazing, loving and strong woman Olive was. This may have somewhat coloured my view of the name but I love the name.

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When I hear Hilda my first thought is Sabrina The Teenage Witch. I do however quite like the name and think they would make a good sib set.

I love Hilda! Such a good name. I wish I liked Olive as much, but it just reminds me of the food and I hate olives. Hilda and Olive would make a very cute sister set.

I really like Hilda. It sounds strong and elegant.

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Olive has a friendly sound but makes me think of the food. I prefer Olivia.

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I think they work very well as sisters.

I like hilda, it’s one of the hinges the fashion wheel is turning on. Have I run my mouth about this enough? It’s a friendly, workable, unfussy name. Olive is a little fussier. It annoys me for some reason, like Charlotte. I can’t seem to register it or remember it or something - it doesn’t feel like a name. But they’re a good sibset.

I love the two as a set! I prefer Hilda to Olive, but I still find Olive undeniably charming.

I dont like either, but Olive is a little better.

I like Hilda, I know it’s often in the batch of ugly old names but it doesn’t have the same vibe as Ethel or Gertrude to me.

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Olive makes me think of olives to eat. Or of Olive Oyl.

I actually like Hilda. I think it's considered one of the ugly unusable names, but for some reason it doesn't strike me as ugly. I think this may be because Hildi was my favorite designer on Trading Spaces, lolol. You know, the one who covered some poor person's walls in hay? I thought she was a genius. Ha. Anyway, I also know an Icelandic woman named Hildur who is a pretty fascinating person. She's smart as a whip, probably physically the most elegantly beautiful woman I've ever seen, but she's manipulative, vindictive, outright hostile to "the help."

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Anyway, I can deal with Hilda. I wouldn't use it, but on someone else's kid I wouldn't mind it. I think Hildy would be a cute nickname.

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I can't say I like Olive, which is weird because I love Oliver. Olive strikes me as overly cutesy in the Drew Barrymore, "I wear sunflowers in my hair and talk like a baby and I'm sooo quirky" school of cutesy. I've known some people who were mundanely "alternative" in a way that irritated me, and they've named their daughters Olive. Tl;dr It's a perfectly fine name and my problems with it stem from my bitchiness. :)