Olivia (name)
;_fruiting_branch._Coloured_lit_Wellcome_V0044586.jpg) A coloured lithograph of a fruiting branch of an olive plant | |
| Pronunciation | /oʊˈlɪviə/[1] |
|---|---|
| Gender | Feminine |
| Language(s) | English |
| Name day | April 15 (Sweden) June 10 (Italy) |
| Origin | |
| Language(s) | Latin |
| Meaning | olive, olive tree, "peace" |
| Other names | |
| Pet form(s) | Liv, Livi, Livvy, Ollie, Olly, Livia, Livy, Livvie, Livie, Livvi, Olz |
| Related names | Oliva, Olive, Oliver |
Olivia is a feminine given name in the English language. It is derived from Latin oliva "olive" meaning peace. Both Oliva and Olivia were Latinate forms in use in English speaking countries as early as the thirteenth century. Olive was in common use as a vernacular form.[2] Though not invented by William Shakespeare, the name was popularized by a character in the Twelfth Night.[3]
Olivia has been a popular name throughout the English-speaking world since the mid-1990s, and has been one of the most popular given names for baby girls in the United Kingdom for much of that time.[4] In 2021, it topped Babycenter's top 100[5] and was the third most popular name for girls in Australia.[6] Olivia was the most popular name for girls in both the United States and the United Kingdom in 2020. It has also been among the most popular names for girls in many other European countries, Canada and New Zealand in recent years.[7]
People with the mononym
- Olivia of Palermo (448–463), Christian martyr
- Olivia (singer) (born 1981), American singer, born Olivia Longott
People with the name
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- Olivia Alexander (born 1988), American actress
- Olivia Allison (born 1990), English swimmer
- Olivia Amoako (born 1985), Ghanaian footballer
- Olivia Anderson (born 1987), South African cricketer
- Olivia Arthur (born 1980), British documentary photographer
- Olivia Baker (weightlifter) (born 1979), New Zealand weightlifter
- Olivia Barash (born 1965), American actress
- Olivia Barclay (1919–2001), British astrologer
- Olivia Cajero Bedford (1938–2022), American politician
- Olivia Bee (born 1994), American photographer
- Olivia Bennet, Countess of Tankerville (1830–1922), British countess
- Olivia De Berardinis (born 1948), American painter
- Olivia Bertrand (born 1989), French alpine skier
- Olivia Blake (born 1990), British MP
- Olivia Blatchford (born 1993), American squash player
- Olivia Bloomfield, Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (born 1960), British political party executive
- Olivia Bonamy (born 1972), French actress
- Olivia Bonelli (1920–1990), American soprano
- Olivia Bonilla (born 1992), American singer-songwriter and actress
- Olivia Borlée (born 1986), Belgian sprinter
- Olivia Breen (born 1996), British Paralympian athlete
- Olivia Broadfield (born 1981), English singer-songwriter
- Olivia Broome, British para powerlifter
- Olivia Brown (born 1960), American actress
- Olivia Bucio (born 1954), Mexican actress
- Olivia Buckland (born 1993), English reality television personality and model
- Olivia Buckley (1799–1847), English harpist, organist and composer
- Olivia Burges (died 1930), British scouting and guiding advocate
- Olivia Burnette (born 1977), American actress
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1869–1944), African American author
- Olivia Carlsson (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player
- Olivia Carnegie-Brown (born 1991), British rower
- Olivia Cattan (born 1967), French journalist
- Olivia Cenizal (1926–2008), Filipino film actress
- Olivia Chance (born 1993), British footballer
- Olivia Chaney (born 1982), English folk singer
- Olivia Cheng (Hong Kong actress) (born 1960), Hong Kong actress
- Olivia Cheng (Canadian actress), Canadian actress and television journalist
- Olivia Choong (born 1979), environmental activist from Singapore
- Olivia Cîmpian (born 2001), Romanian-born Hungarian female artistic gymnast
- Olivia Chow (born 1957), Canadian politician
- Olivia Langdon Clemens (1845–1901), wife of Mark Twain
- Olivia Coffey (born 1989), American rower
- Olivia Cole (1942–2018), American actress
- Olivia Cole (poet) (born 1981), British poet
- Olivia Colman (born 1974), British actress
- Olivia Coolidge (1908–2006), American writer and educator
- Olivia Cooke (born 1993), English actress
- Olivia Côte, French actress
- Olivia Crocicchia (born 1995), American actress
- Olivia Culpo (born 1992), American beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA and Miss Universe 2012
- Olivia d'Abo (born 1969), British actress, singer and songwriter
- Olivia Dean (born 1999), English singer
- Olivia Deeble (born 2002), Australian actress
- Olivia DeJonge (born 1998), Australian actress
- Olivia DeMerchant (born 1991), Canadian rugby union player
- Olivia Mariamne Devenish (1771–1814), British socialite
- Olivia De Berardinis (born 1948), American artist
- Olive Duck (1912–1925), American female murder victim
- Olivia Dunne (born 2002), American gymnast and internet personality
- Olivia Gant (2010–2017), American female murder victim
- Olivia Goldsmith (1949–2004), American writer
- Olivia Harrison (born 1948), wife of musician George Harrison
- Olivia Hallinan (born 1985), English actress
- Olivia de Havilland (1916–2020), British-American actress
- Olivia Holt (born 1997), American actress
- Olivia Hooker (1915–2018), American psychologist
- Olivia Hussey (born 1951), British actress
- Olivia Hye (born Son Hye-ju, 2001), Korean musician
- Olivia Jordan (born 1988), American beauty pageant titleholder
- Olivia Judson (born 1970), British biologist
- Olivia Liang (born 1993), American actress
- Olivia Lufkin (born 1979), Japanese-American singer known mononymously as Olivia
- Olivia Manning (1908–1980), British writer
- Olivia Alaina May (born 1985), American actress
- Olivia McTaggart (born 2000), New Zealand pole vault athlete
- Olivia Munn (born 1980), American actress
- Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022), English-born Australian singer and actress
- Olivia Nordgren (1880–1969), Swedish politician
- Olivia Nuzzi (born 1993), American political journalist
- Olivia O'Leary (born 1949), Irish journalist
- Olivia Olson (born 1992), American actress and singer
- Olivia Ong (born 1985), Singaporean singer
- Olivia Rodrigo (born 2003), American actress and singer
- Olivia Ruiz (born 1980), French singer
- Olivia Tennet (born 1991), New Zealand actress
- Olivia Trappeniers (born 1997), Belgian Flemish singer, also known as OT and by the mononym Olivia
- Olivia Thirlby (born 1986), American actress
- Olivia Ulenius (born 2007), Finnish footballer
- Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944), American writer
- Olivia Wayne (born 1986), British sports journalist and television presenter
- Olivia Wensley (born 1985), New Zealand lawyer
- Olivia Wilde (born 1984), American actress
- Olivia Williams (born 1968), English actress
Animals with the name
- Olivia (dog) (born 2015), dog actor
Fictional characters with the name
- Olivia, in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
- Olivia, in Fire Emblem Awakening
- Olivia, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Olivia, protagonist of several children's books by Ian Falconer
- Olivia, from Pokémon Sun and Moon
- Olivia, in the manga series Asobi Asobase
- Olivia, from the animated series Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Olivia, from Lego Friends
- Olivia, King Olly's sister/daughter in Paper Mario: The Origami King
- Lady Olivia, character from the American animated fantasy series Amphibia
- Olivia Adler, main character in "Small Spaces" - first in the book series trilogy "Small Spaces" by Katherine Arden
- Olivia Baker, in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
- Olivia Barber Winters, on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Olivia Benford, on FlashForward, played by Sonya Walger
- Olivia Benson, on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Mariska Hargitay
- Olivia Burke, in the television series Gossip Girl
- Olivia Caliban, from A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Olivia Castle, from the horror movie Final Destination 5
- Olivia Davidson, from the Sweet Valley High book series
- Olivia Dunham, in the television series Fringe
- Olivia Falconeri, from the long-running American soap opera General Hospital
- Olivia Flaversham, from the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective
- Olivia Fuller, from Family Guy
- Olivia Harper, in the American comedy-drama Grey's Anatomy
- Olivia Johnson, from Hollyoaks
- Olivia Kidney, in the Olivia Kidney book series by Ellen Potter
- Olivia Lawrence, from the Video Senshi Laserion anime TV series
- Olivia Mann, in video game Team Fortress 2
- Olivia Pope, in the television series Scandal
- Olivia Richards, from the American soap opera Sunset Beach
- Olivia Robinson, played by Alaina Reed on the long-running children's series Sesame Street
- Olivia Spencer, from the long-running American soap opera Guiding Light
- Olivia Webster, Oscar Webster's daughter in the "Violet Evergarden" anime Netflix series
- Olivia White, in Lemonade Mouth, played by Bridgit Mendler
Translations[8]
- Arabic: أوليفيا
- Bengali: অলিভিয়া
- Bulgarian: Оливия
- Burmese: အိုလံပစ်
- Georgian: ოლივია
- Greek: ολίβια
- Hindi: ओलिविया
- Japanese: オリビア
- Korean: 올리비아
- Persian: اولیویا
- Polish: Oliwia
- Russian: Оливия
- Tamil: ஒலிவியா
- Telugu: ఒలివియా
- Thai: โอลิเวีย
- Ukrainian: олівія
References
- ^ "Olivia". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. Retrieved January 22, 2016.
- ^ Uckelman, Sara L. (September 2019) [7-3], "Names Shakespeare Didn't Invent: Imogen, Olivia, and Viola Revisited", Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67 (3): 153–159
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Rotulorum Originalium in Curia Scaccarii Abbreviatio. Vol. 1: Temporibus Regum Hen. III (1, 2 ed.). Command of His Majesty King George III. 1805. p. 95b.
- ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 210, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
- ^ Cassell, Amy (November 1, 2021). "Most popular baby names of 2021". babycenter. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "REVEALED: The top Aussie baby names for 2021". 7NEWS. May 12, 2021. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
- ^ "Meaning, origin and history of the name Olivia".
- ^ "Olivia in different languages". indifferentlanguages.in. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
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