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Olive

Pronounced AA1 L AH0 V (ARPABET)

  • 2 syllables
  • Peaked 2022
  • 145 years in use
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How popular is Olive?

Olive is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 65,699 children — the 468th most common girls' name on record.

It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 1,836 children were given it.

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2022Girls: 1,836Boys: 5

Characteristics

  • 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
Pronunciations:
AA1 L AH0 V · AA1 L IH0 V
Stress pattern:
10 · 10
Syllables:
2

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Names like Olive

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Sibling names for Olive

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

Frequently asked questions

How popular is the name Olive?
Olive ranks 468th among girls' names in US records, with 65,699 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 14,681.
Is Olive a unisex name?
No. Olive is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Olive most popular?
2022, when 1,836 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.