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Olivia is a popular female name pronounced o-LIV-ee-ə or ə-LIV-ee-ə. It is a Latinate name, coined by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599).^{[citation needed]} He might have derived the name from the olive plant (Latin: 'oliva') or used it as a feminine form of Oliver.^[1]

People

• Olivia (singer), American R&B singer, born Olivia Longott
• Olivia De Berardinis, pin-up artist
• Olivia Chow, Chinese-Canadian politician
• Olivia Goldsmith, American writer
• Olivia Harrison, wife of musician George Harrison
• Olivia de Havilland, double Oscar-winning Japanese-born American actress and leading lady in Gone with the Wind
• Olivia Hussey, English actress, best known for her debut role as Juliet in Zefferelli's "Romeo and Juliet"
• Olivia Lufkin, sometimes called OLIVIA, a Japanese singer
• Olivia Munn, American actress
• Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress, is occasionally referred to simply as "Olivia" on her album covers
• Olivia Nordgren, Swedish politician
• Olivia Ong, Singaporean singer
• Olivia Ruiz, French singer
• Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
• Olivia Wilde, American actress
• Olivia Williams, English actress

Fictional characters

• Olivia (Buffyverse), minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Olivia (fictional pig), protagonist of several children's books by Ian Falconer
• Olivia (Twelfth Night), character in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night
• Olivia Benson, character on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Mariska Hargitay
• Olivia Blake, character from the American soap opera Sunset Beach
• Olivia Dunham, character in the television series Fringe
• Olivia Falconeri, character from the long-running American soap opera General Hospital
• Olivia Fuller, character from Family Guy
• Olivia Harper, nurse in the American comedy-drama Grey's Anatomy
• Olivia Kidney, main character in Olivia Kidney (book series by Ellen Potter)
• Olivia Robinson, character played by Alaina Reed on the long-running children's series Sesame Street
• Olivia Spencer, character from the long-running American soap opera Guiding Light
• Olivia Walton, matriarch of the Walton clan on the TV series The Waltons

Literature and entertainment

• Olivia (magazine), Finnish women's magazine
• Olivia (novel), published in 1994 by Judith Rossner
• Olivia (Dorothy Bussy novel), a novel published in 1949 by Dorothy Bussy under the pen name "Olivia"
  • Olivia (film), 1951 French motion picture based on this novel
• Olivia (play), by William Gorman Wills
• Olivia Records, record label
• Olivia (TV series), an 2009 animated show based on Ian Falconer's books
• "Olivia (Lost and Turned Out)", 1978 R&B song by The Whispers from their Headlights album

Other uses

• Olivia (company), lesbian-oriented travel company
• 835 Olivia, a minor planet
• Hala Olivia, arena in Gdańsk, Poland
• Olivia, Minnesota, a small city in the United States
• Olivia, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Olivia MFSK, an amateur radio digital transmission protocol
• The Olivia Tremor Control, an American indie rock band
• Hurricane Olivia, the name of several tropical cyclones

References

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

Latin Oliva, an early saints' name from oliva "olive" (symbol of peace). Shakespeare used the form Olivia in Twelfth Night. By folk etymology used as the feminine form of Oliver and, in Scandinavia, of Olaf.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪviə

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name.

Quotations

• 1766 Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield:

  I intended to call her after Aunt Grizel, but my wife who, during pregnancy, had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia. In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grizel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand godmother, the girl was, by her directions, called Sophia, so that we had two romantic names in the family, but I solemnly protest I had no hand in it.

Related terms

• Olive, Ollie, Livvy

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name, cognate to Olivia.

Finnish

Proper noun

Olivia (stem Olivi-^*)

1. A female given name of modern usage, cognate to Olivia.

French

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name, cognate to Olivia.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of aiilov
• violai
• voilai

German

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name, cognate to Olivia.

Italian

Proper noun

Olivia f.

1. A female given name, cognate to English Olivia or Olive.

Related terms

• Oliviero

Anagrams

• Anagrams of aiilov
• oliavi
• olivai
• vaioli
• violai

Norwegian

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name, cognate to Olivia.

Swedish

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name, cognate to Olivia.