Liv 1

Listen you people (including you "rory" because you are obviously clueless) it is pronounced "leev" because that is how it is pronounced in Swedish (my native tongue) - it means "life" in our everyday langauge and this is how we pronounce it. The word which this name comes from "Liv". Try to have respect for the origins of a name, including the correct pronunciation - not just the one you prefer, and not just because some actress is pronouncing it that way - i.e. the wrong way.

Come on, guys! Sweedypops, Liv may be a Scandinavian name, but that doesn't mean it isn't a nickname and name with a different pronunciation. I mean Olivia isn't pronounced "O-LEEV-ee-a".

I am not denying that it is also a nickname for Olivia, nor am I at all suggesting that Olivia is to be pronounced Ol-eev-ia. I did get over-heated and I apologise since it was unnecessary, but I am still rather annoyed that some people refuse to accept that it is also a full name in another culture, with another meaning and with a different pronunciation which, if one has respect for such things, one should stick to. This is, after all, the comments section for the Scandinavian name Liv, not the nickname for Olivia (which should be part of the Olivia section), and it plainly states the correct pronunciation here, so I think this is not the place to be bringing up the wrong pronunciation simply because that is how one says it as a nickname for another name. This particluar Liv has NOTHING to do with the name Olivia. Liv Tyler was named after Liv Ullman - a Swedish actress - and the fact that so many people now think it is pronounced "live" because of her makes it somewhat hopeless for me to succeed in convincing you, I suppose.

To those who made the comments about pronunciation:
You have to bear in mind that this isn't an English nickname to be pronounced to rhyme with "give." It's a Scandinavian standalone name, and with the Scandinavian vowels (and most other alphabets besides English) the I is almost always pronounced "ee".