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It’s just too foody for me.

I think it is really sweet and calm, it fits with like Primrose. I don't think it will get very popular though. I think Olivia is extremely overdone, and people are going to get so tired of it, like they get tired of 80sish names like Michelle and stuff.

I quite like Olive as I have positive associations with it. Olive Annie was my great grandmother and everyone who knew or met her had nothing but positive things to say.

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Olive was one of my brownies a few years ago. We also had her older sister Rose and both were lovely girls.

It definitely feels celeb trendy dated to me. It feels like someone trying hard to be quirky in a way I don't find cute. It's different from names like Bear or Honey which I also hate. It's less cutesy celeb and more vague Hippie celeb. Best example is Drew Barrymore, whose vagueness I've always found highly irritating.

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I don't think it'll ever become mainstream.

I didn’t like it for a long time, but over the last few years it’s grown on me a lot. It doesn’t seem dated celeb retro to me, because I don’t think the frequency of it’s use was high enough for that. I think Olivia will always be waaaaaaaaaay more popular, because it has the sound that people prefer. Olive seems dated to a lot of people.

On my family tree, a woman born in the UK in the early 20th century (before 1914) was named Olivia but chose to go by Olive. I have always thought that she made the wrong choice. That is my ony association with Olive; I do like Olivia but there are too many at the moment.

I don't like it, prefer Olivebe or Olivia

I remember it was used and considered quirky-cute in Juno which came out in the late 00s, but it fits in with several trends beyond whatever celeb use it's gotten.

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It seems a lot like Ruby to me (more boisterous than quiet) or like an off-beat Olivia. Violet and Sage are other nature/color names currently popular. And it's a tree name like Willow, Rowan, Juniper, Hazel. I think Olive's going to keep getting popular but not super popular (probably never top 20s? maybe not top 50s, but who knows? So far it's risen at the same pace Willow started at). It seems more current to me than recently dated, though I feel like Opal has already taken it's place as the most lovably quirky vintage O name.

This message was edited 10/5/2021, 8:10 PM

Well it is a little trendy but I do like how Olive branches are the symbols of peace and hope. It's a nice thing to be affiliated with tbh. I may slightly be more into Opal myself but Olive is Definitely a solid name outside of the celebrity scope of the 2010s imo.

Hi Perrine !!!

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Naming a baby Olive is like to use Oliva here in Italy (the fruit, because the tree is called ulivo).

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Oliva is used very rarely but exists while ulivo is not a given name.

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Olive...
I prefer it over the super trendy Olivia. Obviously my opinion is not influenced by the fact that "olive" is a commonly-used word for an English-speaker.

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However I think that abroad tree-names are well-considered so Olive could be great despite of its usage there.

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Personally I get a 1930s-1940s-1950s vibe rather than a 2010s celeb vibe.