Olive
Top 1000
About Olive
Though greatly overshadowed by the trendy Olivia, Olive has a quiet, subtle appeal of its own -- and is now enjoying a remarkable comeback. Olive is one of only four girl names starting with O on the US Top 1000. Cool couple Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen chose it for their daughter, reviving the name to stylishness, and now Drew Barrymore has a little Olive too, as has country singer Jake Owen.
Olive has positive associations to the olive branch as a symbol of peace and the ancient olive wreath that celebrated success.
Olive was the name of the adorable Abigail Breslin character in the popular movie Little Miss Sunshine. Olive Chancellor is a major character in Henry James's The Bostonians and Olive Kitteridge is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout novel that was adapted into a TV miniseries in 2014. Kids might be familiar with Olive the Other Reindeer.
Olive came into fashion at the end of the nineteenth century along with other botanical names, when it had a run in the Top 100.
Pronounced AHL-iv.
As of October 2026, Olive ranked #197 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #82 in 1893, Nameberry popularity #230.
Editor's take: The name Olive is a girl's name of English origin meaning "olive tree".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #281 | 1,152 | 644.9 |
| 2015 | #264 | 1,212 | 679 |
| 2016 | #273 | 1,162 | 655.7 |
| 2017 | #256 | 1,252 | 725.2 |
| 2018 | #268 | 1,232 | 724.2 |
| 2019 | #214 | 1,434 | 854.4 |
| 2020 | #196 | 1,491 | 922.3 |
| 2021 | #182 | 1,635 | 996.4 |
| 2022 | #158 | 1,836 | 1,119.4 |
| 2023 | #180 | 1,649 | 1,027.7 |
| 2024 | #171 | 1,778 | 1,097.4 |
| 2025 | #197 | 1,597 | 993.6 |
World rankings
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Olive on lists
Famous Olives
- (Olive) Marie Osmond
American singer and actress
- Olive May Osmond
matriarch of the American Osmond singing family
- Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy)
American silent film actress
- Olive Dora Sturgess
Canadian actress
- Olive Ann Burns
American novelist
- Olive Cecilia Paget
Lady Baille, Anglo,American heiress
- Olive Oatman
American pioneer captured by Native Americans and freed five years later
- Olive Deering
American actress
- Olive Nevart Zorian
English violinist
- Olive Borden
American actress
- Olive Ann Beech
American aviatrix
- Olive Carey (born Olive Fuller Golden)
American actress
- Olive Loughnane
Irish Olympic athlete
- Olive Dame Campbell
American folklorist and author
- Olive Fremstad (born Anna Olivia Rundquist)
Swedish,America mezzo,soprano
- Olive Eva
daughter of singer Amber Nichols
- Olive Baron Cohen (b. 2007)
daughter of actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher
- Olive Barrymore Kopelman (b. 2012)
daughter of actress Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman
- Olive Tennant (b. 2011)
daughter of actor David Tennant and Georgia Moffett
- Olive Wojcinski (b. 2011)
daughter of Australian rules footballer David Wojcinski
- Olive Pearl Owen (b. 2012)
daughter of Jake Owen and Lacey Buchanan
- Olive Avery Lawson (b. 2013)
daughter of musician Jesse Lawson
- Olive Belle Guerra
daughter of rugby leaguer Aidan Guerra and Belinda Bartholomew,Walsh
- Olive Speers (b. 2014)
daughter of broadcaster David Speers
- Olive Uniacke
stepdaughter of film producer David Heyman
- Olive Mae Puro (b. 2015)
daughter of actress Marla Sokoloff and Alec Puro
Olive in pop culture
- Olive Snook
character on TV's "Pushing Daisies"
- "Olive Kitteredge
" novel, TV movie and its main character
- Olive Hoover
character in film "Little Miss Sunshine"
- Olive Penderghast
character in film "Easy A"
- "Olive
the Other Reindeer," book by J. Otto Seibold and its main character, a dog
- Olive Oyl
Popeye's girlfriend in the Popeye series
- Olive Butler Rudge
a character on British TV series "On the Buses"
- Olive Abroholos Elephanta
character in Ransom Riggs' "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series
- Olive
a character on TV's "Odd Squad"
- Olive
a character from the Canadian animated series "Justin Time"
- "Olive's Ocean
" novel by Kevin Henkes and film
- Olive Doyle
a character on TV's "A.N.T Farm"
- Olive
cook in The Bash St. Kids' comics
- Olive Hornby
minor character in the Harry Potter series
- Olive Durwoody
main protagonist in the "Books of Elsewhere" series
- Olive Silverlock
character from DC's Gotham Academy
- Olive Specter (nee Muenda
previously Thanasia and Mortis), character in "Sims" series
- Olive Crew
Clancy Crew's sister in the "Ruby Redfort" book series