as a First Name
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 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 89,235
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 297,355
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- New Mexico
- has the most people named Olivia per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
99.97%
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4%
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5%
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14%
13-29
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77%
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