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[Opinions] Oliver
I had a dream that I had a son and named him Oliver. It's kind of funny, because my husband would never go for it.Thoughts on Oliver? Middle name suggestions? Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I think it's, like, pretty and cool-looking. There's something about it that's slightly awkward to me that keeps it off my list - plus the trendiness, I guess - but I like it pretty well as a name.Oliver Blair
Oliver Triton
Oliver Nimue (let's BEND GENDERS!)
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I used to like it more than I do now. It's a sweet, gentle name. But now I think of olives, which I don't like, and also how it looks like oh, liver. Oliver Bertram
Oliver Dashiell
Oliver Quinn
Oliver Jonathan
Oliver Malcolm

This message was edited 5/30/2018, 10:37 AM

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I like Oliver as a middle name only. My go to combo is Ethan Oliver.
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Oliver is overused and at this point very boring.
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I like Oliver very much, but I'd only ever use it as a mn because I view Ollie with shudders of dread. So, just about any name that doesn't end in -er would do nicely as a fn: not Alastair, Peter, Trevor etc. Of the similar names, I far prefer Oliver (which to me is Cromwellian rather than food item), then Olivia which is a bit too frilly for me but is a family name, and I don't enjoy Olive at all, although my distant relative who was named Olivia chose to be known as Olive, silly lady.
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"Please Sir, I want some more" is the first thing that comes to mind.
I think it's kind of dull.
Middle names:
Oliver Francis
Oliver Joel
Oliver Ludvig
Oliver Pierre
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I like Oliver, though I wouldn't use it as it's too common. I think a lot of names work well with it for a mn, just depends on your tastes.
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I know so many Olivers right now - it's Oliver-saturation in this area.I have never liked the name, it's nms. I find it annoying and slightly whiny.Thoughts:
Oliver Newton
Oliver Apollo
Oliver Issachar
Oliver Zeus
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I think Oliver is a gross-sounding name. It slithers in the mouth like the liver it contains. And sounds like "all over."
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I really enjoy Oliver. It bounces off the tongue in a nice way, and I tend to like names with L's and R's. If I were to use it, which is not outside the realm of possibility since Will likes it too, these are the combos I would consider:Oliver Jude
Oliver Noel
Oliver James
Oliver Joel
Oliver Luke
Oliver Milo
Oliver Wesley
Oliver Sterling
Oliver Henry
Oliver Simon
Oliver Shiloh
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It's not a bad name, but it's been very popular in the UK for so long I just find it boring. Sometimes it feels like all boys here are named Oliver, Harry or Charlie!
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When I was about 15-18, I was totally set on naming my firstborn Oliver. Then I changed my mind, and now I'm really liking it again. It's absolutely on my list (but so are about 170 other boys' names..). I like that it's friendly, works well on a child, but it's also a somewhat classic, at least in the US.
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I feel like the only person in the world who can only think "olives" when I see or hear Oliver and the only person in the world who objects to it for that reason. And I love olives. I would imagine it would be worse for (what seems like) the majority of people who hate them, but noooooo.
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Olives are nice though. Olive trees are a nice image.
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Oddly, it does that to me too - even more than the name Olive. And Oliver makes me think of olives in martinis, particularly - rather than just olives. Probably because the name Oliver was very unusual when I was growing up, and when I heard it I connected it with the word because there wasn't much else to connect it to. And I first encountered olives in martinis, too. My parents' martinis, that is.It's not what turns me off the name - I just don't like the sound of it in my accent. Sounds like all over, I'll love her, all of her.

This message was edited 5/29/2018, 10:04 PM

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LOL, that's how I was first introduced to olives, too---my mother would always give me the olive out of her martini. (My father put lemon twists, not olives, in his martinis.) I grew up eating gin-soaked olives. I could have done without the gin flavor but I still liked the olives.
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It makes me think of olives too, but that’s a good thing for me. Of course I also love the name Olive so ...
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I'm very biased, as one of my older brothers is Oliver, but I am very fond of the name. It's very handsome.I like the combos of Oliver William, Oliver Francis, Oliver Edward, and Oliver Nathaniel.
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I used to really like Oliver, but now it’s extremely popular and definitely has a reputation as a “trendy kid name,” which would lead me to avoid it. I still think it’s a handsome name, though, and unlike a lot of trendy names does work well for an adult (actually met an adult Oliver not too long ago, he’s about 22-24).Here are some interesting combos:Oliver Anthony
Oliver Howard
Oliver Robert
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My husband would love to use it; I think if it were up to him all our kids would be named after his mom and his dead cats. Haha. Dawn, Oliver and Rupert are an ok set, right? A couple of his friends have a 2 year old named Brendan Oliver.
It's ok. At this point all the Oliv- names feel like nothing special to me.Oliver Heath
Oliver Leonard
Oliver Dominic
Oliver Milo
Oliver Phoenix
Oliver Levi
Oliver Lenox
Oliver Witten
Oliver Scout
Oliver Saint
Oliver Kalliphon
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I love Oliver, although I’ve gotten kind of sick of it. I’d consider as a middle name for sure though. It’s just so handsome. I met the sweetest kid named Oliver about a year ago, and that helped too. My first thought it Oliver Michael but that’s a total snooze fest. Oliver Arden. Olive Garden, hahaha. Okay.Oliver Charles
Oliver Gideon
Oliver Mitchell
Oliver Zebulon
Oliver Bennett
Oliver Fabian
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