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in reply to a message by Anneza
Leslie Dunkling's "Everyman's Dictionary of First Names" just says that Olive "came into fashion at the end of the 19th century along with other botanical names."
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "significant use." In the records from the 1841 census of England found on Ancestry.com, there were 1,839 women listed with the given name "Olive". The two oldest, Olive Hart and Olive Voakes, were listed as being 85 years old (so born about 1756). The were both born in Hampshire and still living in that county in 1841.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "significant use." In the records from the 1841 census of England found on Ancestry.com, there were 1,839 women listed with the given name "Olive". The two oldest, Olive Hart and Olive Voakes, were listed as being 85 years old (so born about 1756). The were both born in Hampshire and still living in that county in 1841.
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