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Ollie was my great-grandmother's full name (other than her last name). It wasn't short for anything and she didn't have a middle name. If it wasn't for her though I would probably hate it. I don't like Oliver or Olive. I do like Olivia but prefer the nickname Livi or just the full name. My great-grandma didn't seem to like it much but I think it was more of how she got the name that she was upset about. When I asked her if she had a middle name she very bitterly told me she didn't even have a first name until she was 3. She said her parents never named her and just called her girl even though all her older siblings had full names and by the time she was 3 she had a younger sister with a first and middle name and her 14 year old brother said it was stupid and started calling her Ollie and her parents just said okay and went with it.

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My redeeming qualities for it, beside my great-grandmother is that it would just be a nickname and can be Olivia and it sounds like a lot of other okay or nice names Ally, Molly, Holly, and Polly.