Oliver

Also Polish: https://www.behindthename.com/name/oliver/top/poland

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Also Slovene:

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https://www.behindthename.com/name/oliver/top/slovenia
https://sl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(osebno_ime)

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Also Estonian:

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https://www.stat.ee/nimed/Oliver
https://et.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Oliver#Estonian

Also Spanish (Modern). There are 17.093 bearers of this name in Spain, and the average age of the bearers is 14 (source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística).

My middle is named Oliver, nicknamed Ollie.

The most common boy's name in England and Wales.

There are two Spanish versions of this name according to Nameberry.com: Oliverio and Olivero.

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https://nameberry.com/babyname/Oliver

Also Galician: http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_masculinos_en_galego

Add Usage: Russian, Dutch

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Pronounced: AHL-i-vər (American English), AWL-i-və (British English), AW-li-vu (German), AW-li-veh (Swedish)

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It is used in various languages.

I thought that name was overwhelmingly scarce for humans in America, but not for their pets. How did it become this popular here, when it's only popularity was in Finland, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Eastern Europe? Speaking of Switzerland, is Oliver popular there?

Oliver is a big jumper in 2016 Italian chart. In fact it is #142 masculine name for babies born that year with +27 positions than 2015.

In 2018, 2 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Oliver who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 753rd most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.

Russian name.

This name has been in our (Hungarian) family since the 17th century, according to family tradition, introduced by a female Scottish Catholic refugee to Transylvania, who wished that her descendants should remember our Scottish heritage, even though she (as a woman who married into a Hungarian family), could not lend her own name. Well, if the story is accurate, it worked! I'm named Oliver, as is my son, my nephew, my father, and many fathers before me, and we do remember our (distant) Scottish heritage (recently confirmed by DNA analysis…). It was very unusual when I grew up (in Canada -- I never met another Oliver besides my Dad while growing up), but on visits to Hungary it was nice to have people immediately accept it, rather than constantly comment on "Oliver Twist", the way they did in Canada. Now it's popular in Canada, and even more popular in Hungary.

It is also used in Czech, Slovak, Estonian, Hungarian and Late Roman.

It's also sporadically used in Croatia.

Also an unusual masculine name in Slovenia.