Olive
2025 SSA
2025 SSA
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.
Olive is also given to boys, where it ranks #10398 in the US.
Pronounced AHL-iv.
As of October 2026, Olive ranked #197 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #82 in 1893, Nameberry popularity #200.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #281 | 1,152 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #264 | 1,212 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #273 | 1,162 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #256 | 1,252 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #268 | 1,232 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #214 | 1,434 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #196 | 1,491 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #182 | 1,635 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #158 | 1,836 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #180 | 1,649 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #171 | 1,778 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #197 | 1,597 | — | 0 |
World rankings
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Olive on lists
Famous Olives
- (Olive) Marie OsmondGirl
American singer and actress
- Olive May OsmondGirl
matriarch of the American Osmond singing family
- Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy)Girl
American silent film actress
- Olive Dora SturgessGirl
Canadian actress
- Olive Ann BurnsGirl
American novelist
- Olive Cecilia PagetGirl
Lady Baille, Anglo,American heiress
- Olive OatmanGirl
American pioneer captured by Native Americans and freed five years later
- Olive DeeringGirl
American actress
- Olive Nevart ZorianGirl
English violinist
- Olive BordenGirl
American actress
- Olive Ann BeechGirl
American aviatrix
- Olive Carey (born Olive Fuller Golden)Girl
American actress
- Olive LoughnaneGirl
Irish Olympic athlete
- Olive Dame CampbellGirl
American folklorist and author
- Olive Fremstad (born Anna Olivia Rundquist)Girl
Swedish,America mezzo,soprano
- Olive EvaGirl
daughter of singer Amber Nichols
- Olive Baron Cohen (b. 2007)Girl
daughter of actors Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher
- Olive Barrymore Kopelman (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of actress Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman
- Olive Tennant (b. 2011)Girl
daughter of actor David Tennant and Georgia Moffett
- Olive Wojcinski (b. 2011)Girl
daughter of Australian rules footballer David Wojcinski
- Olive Pearl Owen (b. 2012)Girl
daughter of Jake Owen and Lacey Buchanan
- Olive Avery Lawson (b. 2013)Girl
daughter of musician Jesse Lawson
- Olive Belle GuerraGirl
daughter of rugby leaguer Aidan Guerra and Belinda Bartholomew,Walsh
- Olive Speers (b. 2014)Girl
daughter of broadcaster David Speers
- Olive UniackeGirl
stepdaughter of film producer David Heyman
- Olive Mae Puro (b. 2015)Girl
daughter of actress Marla Sokoloff and Alec Puro
Olive in pop culture
- Olive SnookGirl
character on TV's "Pushing Daisies"
- "Olive KitteredgeGirl
" novel, TV movie and its main character
- Olive HooverGirl
character in film "Little Miss Sunshine"
- Olive PenderghastGirl
character in film "Easy A"
- "OliveGirl
the Other Reindeer," book by J. Otto Seibold and its main character, a dog
- Olive OylGirl
Popeye's girlfriend in the Popeye series
- Olive Butler RudgeGirl
a character on British TV series "On the Buses"
- Olive Abroholos ElephantaGirl
character in Ransom Riggs' "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" series
- OliveGirl
a character on TV's "Odd Squad"
- OliveGirl
a character from the Canadian animated series "Justin Time"
- "Olive's OceanGirl
" novel by Kevin Henkes and film
- Olive DoyleGirl
a character on TV's "A.N.T Farm"
- OliveGirl
cook in The Bash St. Kids' comics
- Olive HornbyGirl
minor character in the Harry Potter series
- Olive DurwoodyGirl
main protagonist in the "Books of Elsewhere" series
- Olive SilverlockGirl
character from DC's Gotham Academy
- Olive Specter (nee MuendaGirl
previously Thanasia and Mortis), character in "Sims" series
- Olive CrewGirl
Clancy Crew's sister in the "Ruby Redfort" book series