please vote on our girl name! Olive or Olivia?

[Anonymous]

Pepper! Ha Ha!

[Anonymous]

Olivia, yes. Olive no.

[Anonymous]

Olivia is my all-time favorite name. For each of my girls, it was the second place finisher. I love it, love it, love it. But. It's just too damn popular in NWDC. I think there are three on my street. I don't like Olive, but I really like Livia (wish I had thought of that!!).

[Anonymous]

igw80 wrote:I like Olivia...you could always change the spelling: Alivia? just a thought...

Absolutely not. What is the point of misspelling names? She introduces herself and people will automatically think her name is spelled "Olivia" and then she'll have to correct them and say, "Actually, it's Alivia with an A". I just don't get this. I know people do this all the time, but I think it's idiotic.

BTW, Olive = slightly hipster (like naming her Ruby) and Olivia = totally mainstream, will be one of many Olivias in school and will have to be identified in some other way, either by the first letter of your last name (i.e. "Olivia M.") or by some characteristic ("you know, Short Olivia")

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

igw80 wrote:I like Olivia...you could always change the spelling: Alivia? just a thought...

Absolutely not. What is the point of misspelling names? She introduces herself and people will automatically think her name is spelled "Olivia" and then she'll have to correct them and say, "Actually, it's Alivia with an A". I just don't get this. I know people do this all the time, but I think it's idiotic.

BTW, Olive = slightly hipster (like naming her Ruby) and Olivia = totally mainstream, will be one of many Olivias in school and will have to be identified in some other way, either by the first letter of your last name (i.e. "Olivia M.") or by some characteristic ("you know, Short Olivia")

But hipster does not equal attractive. Think of the poor child. Is she going to feel cool that her parents, in an effort to be hip and unusual, named her after a fruit (actually, are olives fruits?). Just because Borat and his chickie did it does not make it ok for a NWDC trying-too-hard-to-be hipster to follow suit. We are not in Hollywood, and she will be teased. If Olivia is too trendy, go with something else entirely.

[Anonymous]

Olivia!

[Anonymous]

Green or black? Kalamata? Oil cured?
Oh goodness- please don't saddle the poor girl with such a dowdy name.

[Anonymous]

Olivia

[Anonymous]

There's an Olive in DD's pre-school class and I always think of Olive-oil when I see her. I like Olivia better (although that reminds me of the cartoon pig...).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pepper! Ha Ha!

You are obviously too much of a young'n to remember Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Pepper Anderson in "Policewoman"!

[Anonymous]

I vote for "Liv" as the name. Liv Ullman, anyone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely not. What is the point of misspelling names? She introduces herself and people will automatically think her name is spelled "Olivia" and then she'll have to correct them and say, "Actually, it's Alivia with an A". I just don't get this. I know people do this all the time, but I think it's idiotic.

I love you. It IS idiotic, annoying, unnecessary, and I feel for the poor kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I vote for "Liv" as the name. Liv Ullman, anyone?

Liv Tyler. She is so hot despite her father. Go with just Liv!

[Anonymous]

Olive is lovely. Ignore the grumps. It is a classic name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Olive is lovely. Ignore the grumps. It is a classic name.

Not grumps, just giving our opinion since the OP asked for a vote. If she had said, I'm naming my child Olive, no questions asked, then so be it. But why not weigh in since she asked us?