[identity profile] miss-tee.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
Which do you prefer
Olive or Olivia?

Date: 2007-10-18 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com
Olivia. Olive is a nice nickname for it, but it seems incomplete.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:25 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-10-18 07:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mamakimi.livejournal.com
This has been posted here like 500 times!

Date: 2007-10-18 07:40 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-10-18 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kristinluffsyou.livejournal.com
Olivia.


Olive reminds me too much of popeye.

We used to call my sister Olive Oil because she had such skinny legs.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
It's funny because I've never liked Olivia, but Olive sounds to me much more accessible. I think I'm biased by the movie Little Miss Sunshine. That kid rocks!
I wouldn't use either, but I'd name the girl Olivia, because it's more formal, then call her Olive, and not just for short.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
yeah, my friend Sara used to be called that a lot for being skinny (with the exception that Olive Oil is Olivia in the italian version of Popeye). She didn't like it at all.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] christhiane.livejournal.com
Olivia. Olive reminds me of Olive Hornby in Harry Potter I think. With that said, Olivia is one of the names I hate.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] farawaysong.livejournal.com
Olive. It reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine! I don't care for Olivia, mostly because of bad associations.

Date: 2007-10-18 07:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
I think that's the first place I've ever heard it, at least as a name on its own

Date: 2007-10-18 08:39 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-10-18 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] omgzits--tam.livejournal.com
Olivia.
Olive was cute in Little Miss Sunshine, but Olive Oil is too strong an association for me.

Date: 2007-10-18 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anapology.livejournal.com
Olivia. Even though it's the numebr 1 babyname where i live.

Date: 2007-10-18 09:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2007-10-18 09:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djador.livejournal.com
My friend's name is Olivia and she always jokes that she was named after her Grandmother who was named Olive...but her Grandmother had changed her name to something else as soon as she turned 18! So she's named after her Grandmother..who apparently disliked her name enough to change it.

But anyway I prefer Olivia.

Date: 2007-10-18 11:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godmod.livejournal.com
Olive. I dislike Olivia

Date: 2007-10-19 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sailorneptune.livejournal.com
These are actually the two names I am most debating with if we are having a girl.
I love both... but Olivia has become much too popular these past few years. I picked out the name a little over a decade ago, when it was virtually unheard of.

Date: 2007-10-19 02:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hotchpot.livejournal.com
Even though its super popular I still prefer Olivia. Olive just sounds drab to me. Like a big fat woman with thick glasses and bad breath.

Date: 2007-10-19 04:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crzydimond.livejournal.com
I used to LOVE Olivia...I guess I still do, but because of the trend thing...

Olive is very pretty too. I would consider it over Olivia actually.

Date: 2007-10-19 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 0o-faerie.livejournal.com
Olivia.
Olive just reminds me way too much of actual olives. I like olives, but to me it seems strange to actually call your kid that.

Date: 2007-10-19 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyo-o.livejournal.com
Olivia! It's one of my favourite names =).

Date: 2007-10-20 06:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitchen-poet.livejournal.com
Olive!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO much better!

I know an awesome Olive, and there is that cute book "Olive the Other Reindeer!"

Olivia is overused and a little stuck up sounding imo.

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