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I actually like Hilda. I think it's considered one of the ugly unusable names, but for some reason it doesn't strike me as ugly. I think this may be because Hildi was my favorite designer on Trading Spaces, lolol. You know, the one who covered some poor person's walls in hay? I thought she was a genius. Ha. Anyway, I also know an Icelandic woman named Hildur who is a pretty fascinating person. She's smart as a whip, probably physically the most elegantly beautiful woman I've ever seen, but she's manipulative, vindictive, outright hostile to "the help."

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Anyway, I can deal with Hilda. I wouldn't use it, but on someone else's kid I wouldn't mind it. I think Hildy would be a cute nickname.

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I can't say I like Olive, which is weird because I love Oliver. Olive strikes me as overly cutesy in the Drew Barrymore, "I wear sunflowers in my hair and talk like a baby and I'm sooo quirky" school of cutesy. I've known some people who were mundanely "alternative" in a way that irritated me, and they've named their daughters Olive. Tl;dr It's a perfectly fine name and my problems with it stem from my bitchiness. :)

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