Olive
Olive is a girl name of Latin origin, meaning The olive tree; peace.
What Olive means
The olive tree; peace.
Olive sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Olive comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Olive is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Olive?
Olive does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Olive
We group Olive under Peace, the natural world and the long-established classics — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Themes: Peace, Nature, Classic
Names like Olive
These share Olive's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Olivia — Olive tree — peace, dignity, friendship.
- Rose — The rose flower.
- Florence — Flourishing; in bloom.
- Laura — Laurel; victory and honour.
- Laurel — The laurel; honour and victory.
- Sylvia — From the forest.
- Fabian — Bean grower.
- Sylvester — From the forest; wild.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Paloma — Dove — a symbol of peace.
- Dove — The bird of peace.
- Irene — Peace.