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in reply to a message by Lily8
I love Olivia, also. The downside, as you are aware, is that suddenly everyone else loves it too.
It's bound to be less popular in ten years' time, though how much less is hard to say.
The problem is that if it is less popular, then it will be seen as passe, and people might think, "Jeez, don't they realize that that name used to be mega-popular and became tired out and that's why it finally dropped like a stone? Couldn't they come up with something better?" That's what I think about our next-door neighbors whose three-year-old daughter is named Heather. The surprising thing for me is that I was discussing it with the mom one day, and she had NO IDEA (she's only twenty-one) that Heather was super popular back in the seventies and eighties. Then again, she had no idea that heather is a flower, either. *Palm-slap*.
But if that doesn't bother you, then go for it, because it's a great name.
I don't personally know any Olivias. I do know that one of my sister's best friends named her daughter Olivia. That Olivia is probably about ten now.
It's bound to be less popular in ten years' time, though how much less is hard to say.
The problem is that if it is less popular, then it will be seen as passe, and people might think, "Jeez, don't they realize that that name used to be mega-popular and became tired out and that's why it finally dropped like a stone? Couldn't they come up with something better?" That's what I think about our next-door neighbors whose three-year-old daughter is named Heather. The surprising thing for me is that I was discussing it with the mom one day, and she had NO IDEA (she's only twenty-one) that Heather was super popular back in the seventies and eighties. Then again, she had no idea that heather is a flower, either. *Palm-slap*.
But if that doesn't bother you, then go for it, because it's a great name.
I don't personally know any Olivias. I do know that one of my sister's best friends named her daughter Olivia. That Olivia is probably about ten now.
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I have the feeling that it will be similar to Amanda in terms of popularity. I don't know why. What were the 80s for Amanda would be the 90s for Olivia and I would assume it to stay common until 2010 and then begin to become less and less popular and I expect it to be out of the top 100 by 2018. Just a feeling, though ;)
I actually like Heather. She didn't know that was a flower!? hehe ;)
I actually like Heather. She didn't know that was a flower!? hehe ;)
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