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What about Ola? I don't personally like it, and it's usually not used as a nickname for Oliver, but thinking outside the box here.
Or Liv? Or maybe Lee, if that isn't too much of a stretch.

Liver keeps cracking me up.

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I saw your earlier post and if I were you, I would go with a different name. I have dropped names I love that were too popular.

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I actually can't stand the name Oliver. The only one I know is a 9 yr old and he is the whiniest cry baby with constant bad attitude. But I never cared much for the name before I knew him.

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I love Owen, but it seems very popular where I live so it was dropped off my list.

Ole (like o-lay)

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I totally worked myself up over the whole nickname thing with Theodora and she rarely goes by a nickname now, other than the one that she came up with by herself which was Dordor. I would just wait until he's here and see what happens, something might turn up naturally. My brother started getting called Chin because my cousin couldn't say Christian.

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I'm having the same issue if we go with Wilhelmina.. don't really love any of the nicknames..

Ollie is the first nickname to spring to mind, but "O" could also be a possibility or something based off his initials. O.Z. with the nickname Oz sounds interesting, but it might not be your style.

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I don't really think Oliver needs a nickname. I know a Daniel and Michael that are both pretty much always called by their full names. It probably depends on where you live and whether or not he wants a nickname when he is older.

Vero, Olive, Ollivander, Over, Ivo, Iver, Lier, Ollo, Ovvo, Livo.

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I think Olive is the cutest and best nickname for Oliver!!

Ovi is the only one I can think of that might work.

Liv? Livvy? But those are very common for girls named Olivia. Honestly, all possible nicknames except for Ollie, Liv and Livvy seem contrived and unnatural to me and the last two sound feminine. I guess you could go for Ols, Olz or Ol but I wouldn't even consider them as they are so unattractive compared to the full name.

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If this is about its popularity, instead of going with a very far fetched nickname I'd rather change the name completely should the full form or Ollie seem too popular to me.

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Oliver is a lovely name despite its popularity, I'd stick to the full form or a nickname that is easily connected with it like Ollie. If I didn't feel comfortable with these I'd rather change the name than go with something that feels forced.

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If this is just about a family nickname then anything goes, I'd say. But if it is something you want him to go by on a daily basis and in public then I think Ollie is pretty much the only choice :/

This message was edited 9/10/2020, 2:01 PM

If it's meant to be a familiar, personal nick, not one that he goes by generally, there's the possibility of elaboration. Being synthetic is fun if it's not trying to be natural. Like, I feel like Noll is really contrived and mawkish if you don't actually call him mine Oliver. I often call my daughter a name that is just a repetition of the last syllable of her name. I might call a son Oliver, Olla or Ollo as a personal nick. Ov or Ovvie sounds too babyish to me (dropping Rs and Ls usually sounds like babytalk). Maybe Ivvo (ih sound like in Oliver) or Livvo. I think Ollie Ed would be a cool mom-nickname to give to an Oliver Edwin, and you could refer to him by it as well as call him. But it'd seem self-conscious to introduce him that way to others.

This message was edited 9/10/2020, 1:43 PM

If I was a kid I'd probably call him Liver.
I guess he could be Oly, with a long o sound but it would be hard to get people to understand the difference. He could go by his initials, but not OJ or OK, and OE or OA wouldn't work too good. But really, Ollie is the only likely one till he earns himself a nn like Specs or Oliver Who Lost His Shoes On the School Trip to the Dairy Farm.

Honestly the best family nicknames are the unplanned ones and are based on in jokes or personality traits. (Bud, Stretch, Red, Lucky, Scout...)

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Or if you want a planned one:

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Noll
Oliver George 'Oggy'
Oliver Zachary 'Ozzy'
Oliver David 'Odie'

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Oreo?
Ori?

Most Olivers I know shorten it to Oli / Olly / Ollie, but a friend of a friend goes by Ov. There’s also Noll.

Ol, Liv, Ver, Noll, Nolly.

Hmm... Liv and Vere are all I can think of. Liv is mainly seen as feminine, don’t know if that’s a problem for you or not. Vere isn’t particularly attractive, in my opinion, and depending on how you would pronounce it, it doesn’t sound like a nickname for Oliver.

Would Liv work? I know it's feminine, but it's not too much of a stretch for a boy, at least not in the US.