Olive

What Olive means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Olive yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #47 vs #197 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Olive?

US: Rising: up from #264 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #176 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1886, when 404 girls got the name (#84 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,006 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 284 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 511 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in VT (5.13 per 1,000 girls), AK (4.84 per 1,000 girls), ME (3.85 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Olive is #197 in the US and #47 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Olive were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Olive

Girls

• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Scarlet#509Editor’s note Down from #376 in 2015 to #509 in 2025 in the US
• Dahlia#215Editor’s note Up from #412 in 2015 to #215 in 2025 in the US
• Aria#26“a musical aria”^*
• Mercy#862Editor’s note Up from #1,011 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Olive’s. Rank is US 2025.