Olive is an English and French name, which is connected to the olive tree. The word derived from the Latin ‘oliva’.
Olive is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Olive isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Olive ranks 221. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 8 were named Olive. In the entire USA, approximately 43,422 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Olive. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Olive is an English and French name, which is connected to the olive tree. The word derived from the Latin ‘oliva’.
Olive trees... have been a symbol of peace, hope, and prosperity for many cultures throughout history.
Olive is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Olive. This means that several girls named Olive have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Olive has reached its highest rank of 80 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1893. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Olive one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Olive was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Olive will be Olive. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Olive in 2022 – in fact 1,833 to be precise, confirming Olive is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #151 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 1988, when only 6 baby girls were named Olive.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Olive occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Olive is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Olive is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 43,422 women and girls of all generations bear the name Olive – that is one in 3,551. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Maine, where one in 1,188 women and girls is called Olive, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 12,920 women for their name to get Olive as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Olive is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.
If your name is Olive and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Olive, you can simply say:
Orange
Lion
Igloo
Violin
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Olive
Olive
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
L
I
V
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
O
L
I
V
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Olive sounds like this:
