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Olive
Rank in 2024
#170
Born in 2024
1,778
Peak year
2022 · #158
Origin
English
1880 to 2024
RisingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,778 girls were named Olive, about 1 in every 907.
- It peaked in 2022 with 1,836 babies, ranked #158.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 65,312 girls have been named Olive since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Olive per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.3Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 27,125 babies, 1.33 per 1,000. Silent: 5,986 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,215 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 234 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 166 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,782 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,930 babies, 0.83 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Medieval form of the Latin saint's name Oliva "olive"; revived in the 19th century when flower and plant names became fashionable. The surname is topographical, often representing an Anglicization of continental European surnames such as Spanish Oliva.
- A female given name from English.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Olive, CC BY-SA 4.0.