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Meaning & Origins
Latinate name, first used by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599). Shakespeare may have taken it as a feminine form of Oliver or he may have derived it from Latin oliva ‘olive’. In the 1970s it was particularly associated with the Australian pop singer and actress Olivia Newton-John (b. 1948). Since the 1990s it has been very popular throughout the English-speaking world.
| 556th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Portuguese: from a misinterpretation (as d’Ornelas) of Dornelas, a habitational name from any of several places called Dornelas, from the plural diminutive of dorna ‘vat’, ‘tub’.
| 2,293rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Olive, Oliva, Olivo, Olivio, Olivi, Oliv, Olivea, Olivie, Olivee, Oliviu
Orner, Ornellas, Orne, Ornelis, Ornelaz, Ornes, Ornela, Ormelas, Orneals, Ornelos
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