Olive
Olive stands at #197 nationally in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. The peak was 1893, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
Olive’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Olive, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Olive since 1880
Olive peaked in 1893 at #82; #197 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Olive is most common
Olive is most common in Vermont: 0.51% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Alaska (0.48%) and Maine (0.39%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Olive
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Oscar
#223 in 2025 · Celtic
Harrison
#116 in 2025
Eliza
#115 in 2025 · Hebrew
Margaret
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Alice
#65 in 2025 · Teutonic
Mabel
#201 in 2025 · Latin
Peter
#187 in 2025 · Greek
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Olive
How popular is the name Olive?
Olive stands at #197 nationally in 2025, keeping its place without fuss. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
Does Olive have a meaning on record?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Olive, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Is there a sibling name for Olive?
Nearest by the published recipe: Oscar, Harrison and Eliza. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
Get Olive’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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