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Olive

English, from Latin, nature name
"olive tree"
Madison Dresler
By Madison Dresler
Updated Tue Sep 30 2025

Olive Origin and Meaning

The name Olive is a girl's name of English origin meaning "olive tree".

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.

# 171 in the US

Olive Rank in US Top 1000

# 120 on Nameberry

Olive Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Popularity of the name Olive

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Famous People Named Olive

  • (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

The name 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

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