Why Is Oliver Such A Popular Name?

[@NameExplain]

Sorry for the crappy audio on this one. My mic was playing up. Should hopefully be fine again in the next one!

[@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu]

[@windmillwilly]

I don’t believe you.

[@eewag1]

Oliver isn’t a popular name.

[@sinibar5850]

So no John Oliver?

[@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu]

@@eewag1 if you know a person with the name Oliver, yes it is. Some places rarely have this types of names. Like China, Middle East, Etc.

[@Jan_Koopman]

"It's too popular" = "a lot of kids (will) have the same name if we pick this" That's why people don't want to use a too popular name

[@rgfella]

And that they want their kids to be different and stand out

[@ZecaPinto1]

@@rgfella give them greek-latin names and they will stand out more often

[@sirBrouwer]

@@rgfella not primary. for a bigger part it can be more of a convenience to give your child a different name. Here in the Netherlands when i went to school the name Jeffery was very populair. resulting with the factor that in once classroom of 12 there where 2 with that name and with in the rest of that year level there where a total of 36 there where 8 Jeffery's that can become a inconvenience.

[@Alex-fv2qs]

@@ZecaPinto1 Like Oliver?

[@ZecaPinto1]

@@Alex-fv2qs you look at mine so you know what i mean

[@oliverthomas-couch]

I know an Oliver and he is literally perfect, the essence of manliness, charming beyond all belief, I love him

[@oliverthomas-couch]

He's also working on becoming a professional wrestler

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

Is his last name Thomas-Couch by any chance?

[@oliverthomas-couch]

@@aaronodonoghue1791 it is, you must know him and must agree with me

[@signosys]

Oliver tree

[@OllyJC]

That's very kind of you

[@kittydreamz86]

As a schoolteacher I'd like to chine in- Some parents dont want to choose a popular name because it ends up negating the point of having a name. Instead of identifying a specific person when someone says it, common names often end up being discarded. A "John" has to be called "John G." To tell him apart from John M. Olivia goes by her middle name "Ann" because there are so many Olivias. It certainly causes a lot of problems at school, from just mixing kids up daily, to the "good" Olivia getting "bad" Olivia's sternly worded reprimands from the principal. It's worse when the last name is often common. There may be 5 "Juan Rodriguez" at one school.

[@Kaidoesthething]

This! At School, I was one of 4 people in my class with my first name, 3 of which had the same middle name. The whole Name + Last Name initial thing did my head in. It's like you go from being a person to a number. Even as an adult, working in a company with less than 70 employees, I've got 2 Colleagues with wives of the same name & someone with an alternate version of my name. It gets very confusing.... Not to mention getting an email address that's suitable for resumes with a common first name & last name is a nightmare. Conversely, my sister has a beautiful, unique name. She was named for my Grandfathers on both sides, with feminine versions of their names. In my 27 years I've only met 2 other people with her name, and no-one with her middle name. I may be jealous...

[@johnm2073]

lol I’m in this comment

[@aaronstanley6914]

when I was in grade school there were 5 girls with the same name they were constantly trying to assert their own identity onto the consciences of the class and would absolutely hate it if you got them confused with one of the other girls. imagine spending your whole school life fighting to be recognized as a distinctive individual and not just another "your name" this is why parents who are smart know not to chose a very popular name. What's funny is in name explains video titled "Why Do We Judge People By Their Name?" he talked about how someone's name can affect their development I'm surprised he didn't make the correlation with this. (note that I already posted a variation of this comment under Patricks (name explained) comment to hopefully let him see it and understand why this is a problem I'm posting it here to let people who stumbled across Kittydreamz86 post read about this problem from the perspective of a school teacher a person personally effected and someone who was a passive observer)

[@allanrichardson1468]

The musical “West Side Story” by Leonard Bernstein is a beautiful classic of American theater, but there is one small problem with it. In the balcony scene, Tony stands outside an apartment building in the Puerto Rican neighborhood, facing dozens of apartment balconies, and calls out “Maria!” But ONLY ONE girl comes to her balcony???

[@aaronstanley6914]

@@allanrichardson1468lol yay now that you mention it there are tons of scenes in movies and tv shows that have that trope and I don't think that in a single one have they shown someone other than the intended individual showing up when called. it gets even more ridiculous when it comes to the modern rendition of the trope where you blast music instead of calling the person. I mean how does that not draw the attention of all the inhabitance of the building.lmao

[@Jessie_Helms]

The only KZbinr who looks better than their avatar would imply.

[@aaronstanley6914]

i like the avatar its cute

[@MahoganyDesk]

The large group of people who don't want to use a baby name because of its popularity are people who have popular names and are sick of hearing their name called and realizing the caller was looking for someone else.

[@ecurewitz]

I once had a cat named Oliver. He was a good cat

[@erinrising2799]

I've only known one Oliver my whole life, was shocked to find out it is so popular

[@signosys]

Oliver tree

[@DaremoTen]

I would definitely shy away from an extremely common name, particularly if your last name is also very common. Having a common name is a problem I know well. I once worked at a place where 5 people had the same name on one shift. Not to mention the problems that can come with having the same name as, for instance, a felon who lives on the same street as you. As much as you might like it, it does come with a number of logistical hurdles that you can't just ignore.

[@ZecaPinto1]

Give a native name to your kids

[@Saxephone]

As a person named Oliver, I think it's quite rare to find someone named that. And if its so popular by statistics, why is there almost no famous people named Oliver?

[@bigbitch584]

i’ve met many people called oliver theres 3 other olivers in my class alone

[@kiga14]

I think it's because it wasn't that popular several decades ago. So while Oliver is a common name for 0 to 5 year olds, it's not a common name for 50 year olds. And famous people tend to be older.

[@Saxephone]

@@kiga14 Could be right

[@tomsammons6480]

My son is Oliver! Best name ever

[@DamianYerrick]

Oliver North famous for Iran-Contra involvement

[@kiga14]

When I was a kid, Oliver wasn't that common, so I would call numbers randomly that were fun patterns, and if anyone answered, I would ask for Oliver. No one ever had an Oliver living there, and I was saved from having to explain why I called.

[@josephlucatorto4772]

The two ends of the baby name spectrum: 1 "We don't like Oliver it's too popular" 2 Mike

[@ZecaPinto1]

Comes grandma: how come both you are white and the babby is asian?

[@mg222.]

I'm a Matthew, my name was very popular when I was born and because of that I'm very rarely the only Matthew in groups. It honestly get annoying after a while so I can see why parents don't want to pick a popular name for their baby

[@johnkilmartin5101]

In the Song of Roland one of Charlemagne's Paladins is named Oliver. As for why parents might not want to use a really popular name; in my graduation class of 208 there were 8 people named John so in any co-ed class with 25 or more there were at least 2 and in one pe class there were 4.

[@douglasphillips5870]

It's so popular, I've even heard they named a sewage plant Oliver

[@melm4251]

😂😂

[@Interlude0fTati]

today I learned that name explain is hot.

[@t6amygdala]

today I learned that name explain is hot.

[@sejn195]

today I learned that name explain is hot.

[@HopeRock425]

He honestly isn't that hot

[@oliverthomas-couch]

@@HopeRock425 lies

[@dracodistortion9447]

today I learned that name explain is hot.

[@zozzy4630]

"It might not be popular anymore when they're 18" yeah but there would still be a bunch of other 18-year-old Olivers if it was popular when they were born lol

[@Alex_Jones_Fitness_Official]

My name is Oliver but I rarely meet people with the same name as me (an I have been to 6 schools). And if I do meet someone with the same name they usually call themselves Ollie.

[@damontolhurst]

I also hold the position of "I really like , but it's too popular, so I can't use it." It's not about what other people think, but the purpose of a name. It's meant to be an identifier, and thus should be reasonably unique. It literally defeats the purpose of even having a name if everyone else on earth has the same name. So the same logic holds that the more popular a name is, the less useful it is. Now, I think there's a balance such that not everyone has a completely unique (i.e. made up) name. It's useful if people can recognize the name, and even more useful still if people can recognize a single individual -from- that name. Sure, we have last names that help, but it's better to only need one name. I have greatly appreciated that setup myself, having a name that everyone is familiar with and yet almost no one has. So, I just think first names should be more identifiable than having 4 people in the same class with the same name.

[@IgabodDobagi]

I'm 36 and have never met anybody named Oliver. The only ones I've heard of are famous British people (Oliver Cromwell being the first I heard of) or fictional vigilantes from DC Comics. I don't even know someone who knows someone named Oliver. I do know someone who has the surname of Oliver. But nobody with the given name of Oliver.

[@iwritechecksatthegrocerystore]

It’s weird because when we were born (I’m the same age) it wasn’t common at all. But it’s incredibly popular now. When I had my daughter in 2017 it was actually the most popular boy name that year. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@tomsammons6480]

My son is Oliver! You prob know a Ollie?

[@IgabodDobagi]

@@tomsammons6480 nope. don't know your son or any other Ollie. My world is Ollie-free.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I have a grandson named Oliver. When I asked his father, a 'skater', why he'd chosen the name, he told me there is a move in skateboarding called the 'ollie', and he wanted to be able to call his son Ollie. The funny thing is, I don't think he realised that his great grandmother (one of your countrywomen, Patrick, from Hampshire) was named Olive, and was called Ollie by her husband and friends. So, in an odd way, my grandson is named for my grandmother.

[@jdinnen1]

Welcome back from holidays!

[@chickadeestevenson5440]

my Husband's first name is Oliver, but he goes by his second name Knoll. From Canada.

[@tomsammons6480]

Why? Oliver is a gorgeous name

[@shelleys]

I cant believe how similar you are in real life to your cartoon character, I’d never seen your face before but you looked EXACTLY like I thought you would

[@sandybarnes887]

Eerie, isn't it. 😆

[@TheJalipa]

Oliver the Paladin companion of Roland in the French Mediaeval Poem “Song of Roland” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(paladin)

[@elliothennessy8360]

Super interesting! I’m American and I’ve only met one Oliver. Tons of Olivias, though.

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

I went to school with a guy named Oliver. He and I were both big science fiction fans. And we both really enjoyed Edgar Rice Burroughs "John Carter of Mars" series of books. So we made a Martian chess board and during our lunch breaks we would play Martian chess.

[@1piecemage]

wow 2 years!

[@FrankLeeMadeere]

Can't recall ever meeting an Oliver in real life. It sounds very old to my ears (e.g. Oliver Twist). The name is number 3 today, but over 300 when I was a kid. I guess in a few years, they'll be everywhere!

[@AshArAis]

If you think there are going to be four people in the class with that name, that's what puts you off. There were four Sarah's out of 15 in my primary class, and four Patrick's in college. We had to come up with Pa, Pat, Paddy and Patrick to distinguish, but usually you get reduced to a physical trait, and that can get potentially bullying, and at the least you are blended into the crowd. You can deal with one other person having your name, but four out of fifteen girls called Sarah was just ridiculous

[@sarahwyatte9554]

I think of Oliver being an older name, and I've noticed a trend more recently of people giving more old fashioned names to babies.

[@thewetzelsixx9009]

The "Follow Your Dreams" dog is beautiful.

[@zaidenallen9933]

Lol I had a Decidueye named Oliver

[@fermintenava5911]

I honestly don't stumble about a lot of Olivers here in Germany. But I had a pair of twins in my class once, and their names were Patrick and Oliver. Famous Olivias I know include Olivia Oil from Popeye, "Orson and Olivia" (a French cartoon series about two street kids), and "Oliver and Olivia", a Danish animated movie about two sparrows.

[@amazinggrace5692]

I’m of the boomer generation and there were always 2-4 other Cathys of the many variations of Catherine. I was usually “Cathy in the back” (of the classroom). Two of good friends were Cathys. Even now, I teach crafts class for blind crafters and there are two Cathys. My daughter died (April 2019), but she was the other craft leader ... she had only a tiny bit of peripheral vision in one eye and none in the other. My point is, people can’t see you so you’re constantly identifying yourself before you speak or when you enter a room, so I became “Cathy, Laura’s Mom”. I’m keeping that name, even though my daughter died. She was one of four family deaths in one year ... all just before covid thankfully. I’ll leave you with the last thing LAURA said at my moms service a month before Laura died ... BEE KIND 💕🐝 oh ps... I thought I was giving my daughter a less common name, but there turned out to be a lot of variations of her name in her class. So just go ahead and pick and name that has some meaning or strikes you right.

[@anne-sop2218]

I live in Canada but in the french speaking province of Quebec. We have Olivier's instead of Oliver's, and we do have many of them! Lovely name

[@Estarfigam]

I find it funny Oliver Reed was a guy who played Bill Sikes in Oliver!

[@spartanswhatisyourprofessi2825]

I've never seen so many fellow Oliver's in one spot. Make sense

[@HopeRock425]

5:46 Oliver John and John Oliver, ironic how these 2 looks so different.

[@amirhosseinmaghsoodi388]

When i think of this name it reminds me of olivander from harry potter(if he was from harry potter)

[@allanrichardson1468]

The late great New York Yankee Yogi Berra was known for his mental slips, such as “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” On one occasion, when he and a group of friends were about to go out for dinner, someone mentioned a very popular restaurant. Yogi replied, “Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded.”

[@firedoom666]

I totally get why someone does not want to pick a popular name. Seeing how I am named Michael which has been in the top 10 names in USA for over 50 years. The popularity of it has always been an annoyance of mine, when I was in 2nd grade I was one of seven boys named Michael in class. Two of my friends growing up were named Michael (one of them even has the same birthday as me). My entire life the name has cause confusion, which is why I don't even respond if I hear the name Michael in public, since I assume they are trying to talk to someone else. This experience has made me vow to never name my future children something popular.

[@BeastOfTraal]

For a long time my name was the most popular boys name, and everywhere I go someone will call out "Hey Mike" I'll turn around and there talking to someone else. Or every group I'm involved with there will be multiple Mikes . When someone says my name they'll say not you the other Mike. So having a less popular name is a good thing. It's your kids name not yours so just because you like it doesn't mean you should pick it for your kids.

[@laser8389]

American here, and I've met two people named Oliver: my great-grandpa and my cousin's son (named after our shared GGpa). Is the popularity you mentioned based on new babies being named? If it's seeing a boom, given the number of people I know who have young kids named anything but Oliver, my social circle must be very atypical.

[@laser8389]

Also, I've driven more Oliver tractors than I've known Oliver people.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Someone should make an Oliver Martini, with a twist!

[@melm4251]

tangentially related but the 'ollie' in skateboarding is somehow named after a guy called Alan

[@PathsUnwritten]

Is it, though?

[@hung-upear2659]

My sister and her parallel class has one Oliver each, also I know two more, so yeah

[@hannayoung9657]

Popular names has the problem when you go to school you become just another Oliver. When I was young the class next to me had 20 kids and 7 first, name yes every one except one kid has some one in the class with their name.

[@hoathanatos6179]

Being Canadian I have never met an Oliver but I have met a French Canadian Olivier.

[@oliverthomas-couch]

Another wrestler called Oliver is Oliver Carter on NXT UK

[@aquawoelfly]

Pretty sure this counts as 5+ names.... Oliver olivier Oliv[e] Olivia Olivetti

[@ZoshDoesStuff]

I love the cardigan

[@rapportbuildingfirst8695]

Good video. Though surprised that there was no mention of Oliver Wood in the Harry Potter series. There is also Jamie Oliver

[@ZecaPinto1]

Nobody mentioned Oliver from anime Oliver and Benji yet either

[@justsomepersononyoutube9271]

My friends name is Oliver stringer

[@IcedFire89]

As someone who went to high school with a bunch of people with the same first name, I understand why you wouldn't give your child a popular name. I quickly only responded to my last name. A lot of times people with very popular names find a nickname to go by.

[@Salztorte]

Thanks for explaining my name.😊😊😊 I am really happy that my parents name me Oliver. If i was born they think about call me Phillip.

[@nico-9805]

This seems so unreal to me, I live in Florida and have never met a single person named Oliver

[@Horsin4years]

You must not have had a class of 3 or 4 Jessica's and get caught up in the name wars of who gets to be called which name. I say this as a Veronica who goes by Roni now because I was an unintended causality of the Jessica Name Wars. My kids will never have a name in the Top 100 names.

[@Thom101]

How about being in a class of 20 - 24 and there are 3 others with the same first name?

[@JackWabbitTV]

I'm an Oliver born in 2002, and I think the name became super popular the year after my birth. For example, in my school year there was only one Oliver (myself), but there were three Olivers in the year below, and similar amounts in the years below that. I was actually named Oliver with the intention of it being meant as a mix of peace, sustenance and prosperity. I think it's a shame that in the English-speaking world children are almost always given names without the meaning of their name considered.

[@williamsvidsandstuffs]

My friend is called Ollie and i knew a Olly from school also there is the youtuber called Oli White [but why all the different versoins]

[@jan-seli]

I don't think I've ever met an Oliver irl

[@eris4734]

If a name is too popular, I think it begins to lose a bit of its purpose. Names are supposed to be unique identifiers of people, and they aren't really useful if too many people in a group have the same name.

[@fyqesema5301]

I am named oliver and have only met one other person with the name. That might be because the name only got super popular in the last ten years though.

[@undertheogletree6338]

Could you cover the name DODGER please?

[@mevb]

I like the name Oliver, it wounds nice, though it feels a bit too "fancy" for me to name my (eventually) future kids. Don't know any Olivers, neither personal nor any celebs besides the fictional Oliver Twist and Oliver from the RPG game Nino Kuni, there's two non-living Olivers that hasn't been mentioned. The first one is Oliver Wallace, a music composer who wrote music for a lot of classic Disney shorts, as well as the feature films Fun and Fancy Free , Dumbo , The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Lady and the Tramp. The other one is Oliver "Ollie" Johnston, a legendary animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men, having done animation in Disney films from Snow White up until The Fox and The Hound, after which he retired. He had a life long friendship with collegue and fellow Disney Nine Old Men animator Frank Thomas, whom he often worked together with, animating one of two characters that acted with in the same scene, for example Thomas did Captain Hook while Jonston animated Mr. Smee. Jonston and Thomas met future director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles I and II and Ratatouille) at a young age and they would give him advice to him, even when he showed them story reels of his films, like The Iron Giant and The Incredibles. In those movies, they voiced their animated cameos, the latter was Thomas last thing as he passed away a couple of weeks before the movies premiere. Jonston passed away in 2008, being the last of The Nine Old Men who died.

[@ekekekekek..sfs98]

People keep making fun of this name and it really upsets me :(

[@Yarnagan]

I completely understand not wanting to name your child something common. I’m one of those Morgan’s born in the late 90’s (as discussed several videos ago) and for most of my childhood even my friends addressed me as “Morgan H” because there was ALWAYS another Morgan in my class.

[@olivernewton9958]

I’ve never ran into another Oliver unfortunately.

[@isaacbobjork7053]

My name Isaac is unusual in Sweden, especially with that spelling (Isak is the more common). But still it is not like when it has to be so unusual and unique, like Amen, Fanta or Lillstrumpa.

[@coconutcore]

There’s actually a good reason why you wouldn’t choose a name because it’s common. You don’t want your children to fade into the background. People want their children to stand out for something beautiful, not be the twenty-fifth of something beautiful people come across.

[@lakotavahle9660]

1. That's one of the 15 cats I have 2. When would you do the origins of one of my 3 dogs.

[@ZachOWott_]

My cat is named Oliver!

[@alecsmith3448]

Probably more tolkienien elves as he got his ideas from old norse myths which were derived from old germanic myths

[@Ong.s_Jukebox]

Can we have most unpopular name by alphabetical order next?

[@zozzy4630]

Another Oliver you missed: John Oliver! He can be pretty divisive as far as people's opinions of him, but he is undeniably largely popular. And, while he's obviously not a wrestler himself, he might be the only late-night news comedian to devote an episode of his weekly show to talking about WWE.

[@HoneydewBeach]

Even my dog is named Oliver

[@jdinnen1]

Because of Cromwell the name won't make it to the top 10 in Ireland I'm afraid...

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

In fact, for a while, us Irish people stopped using it altogether over him (much like what happened with Adolf in Germany), but then when Oliver Plunkett became a saint, the name came into use again. Where I live, there is a St. Oliver's church (presumably the same Oliver) and a Scoil Oilibhéir (which is the Irish for "Oliver's School", and was the schoolnI attended) near my house, and an Oliver Plunkett St in the city centre. So there may still be hope

[@jdinnen1]

@@aaronodonoghue1791 yes I am familiar with those (from Galway and a gaeilgeoir). I actually always liked the name Oliver. It was one of the names my wife and I thought about for our son.. but that didn't go down too well with our peers. Damb Cromwell! 😂

[@Oliver__Pond]

I think Oliver is a really cool name

[@rowboat8343]

I think it stems from when the mother's were growing up. There would be 4 Matthews and 5 Jessica's in every class. Kinda annoying right. But the same doesn't really hold true today. In 1980 the top names in the US accounted for over 3% of births whereas the top names today account for about 1% of births. So there is less chance of having a double up. I think k the trend to being "unique" has made all names more unique. Source ssa.gov

[@p4unx]

Do Sebastian next

[@arescue]

My mother chose my name to be different from the family name of Leia because Star Wars came out, she was afraid that it would be so popular. Funny thing is that I have only met one Leia in my whole life.

[@runescape8freak]

I love my name.

[@greamespens1460]

I was going to start a bet on what name you were going to choose. Apparently Orlando has now been shown to be incorrect. :)

[@jakubpociecha8819]

I bet it's gonna be Patrick

[@greamespens1460]

@@jakubpociecha8819 aaaaah but it goes boy - girl. Also given that there are an even number of letters in the alphabet it will never be P for a boy ;)

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

@@greamespens1460 afaik he said after Z he'd restart but with boys on even letters (B, D, F...) and girls on odd letters (A, C, E...)

[@greamespens1460]

@@aaronodonoghue1791 Oops my mistake. Now that you have said that I remember now.

[@Happydancer9]

Yeah, I'm personally not keen on names like Harry or Oliver, too common. I prefer more distinct names such as Euphemia, Terence, Isabella, Middleton etc.

[@crazymusicchick]

Im a childcare worker popular names im put off because normally ive said the name a million times lol

[@ori5315]

I'm an Oliver and it's weird to hear that it's such a popular name given that in my entire lifetime I've only met about 3 or 4 other Olivers

[@tomsammons6480]

My son is Oliver! It’s a great name

[@gideonjones8088]

I don't think I've ever met anyone named Oliver. I mean if you threw out a list of names and told me to organize them based on popularity I'd put Oliver near the bottom. I have met a few Olivia's though.

[@schmickaussie1038]

Oliver Cromwell is the most famous Oliver. Perhaps his popularity lives on. There are statues, tanks, battle ship, locomotive, etc all named after Oliver Cromwell. On the other side, he was unpopular due to the atrocities committed against Catholics. However in his time European atrocities against Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, etc were unfortunately the norm. Cromwell was however good to the poor, non conformist Protestants, Jews, etc. He created the British commonwealth and the English speaking world would be a different place if that Oliver was not part of our history.

[@alalducente]

1963 Opel Kadett

[@aaronodonoghue1791]

I only know one Oliver, and he's my uncle. The only other Olivers I know of are famous or fictional ones like Oliver Twist or Olly Murs (British singer). Maybe Oliver isn't as popular in Ireland?

[@3lli0]

I almost chose the name Oliver for myself but I just couldn't do it because every time I had Oliver Oliver, the song from Oliver Twist, playing in my head. Also the word looks like O/Liver and I didn't like that.

[@Illumisepoolist]

I think for a gender neutral version, you go with Olive. There's also the Number 11. Great Western Engine from Thomas and friends. And it's the name of MatPat's Kid.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Like Popeye’s girlfriend Olive Oyl.

[@CerroneSamuel]

My daughter’s name is Olivia 😁😁

[@alexthefine]

Today he does a name starting with O. If he continues doing first names once a week he will reach Z until 11th January 2021!

[@hachiko9]

I have a very common name, especially for girls born in the '80s and everywhere I went, school, sports club, social gatherings of any kind, there was at least another person with the same name as me. In high school there were five of us in a class of 30. It's extremely annoying. I will never call a child of mine any of the names at the top of the popularity ranking, no matter how much I like them.

[@chrisidk3992]

Is oliver a popular name I never met another Oliver in my life wich feels weird

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

My nephew's middle name is Oliver. 😊

[@heronimousbrapson863]

"Olivier" in French means "Olive tree".

[@ZecaPinto1]

Its general, I suppose

[@sarreqteryx]

as a member of an Italian American family (no, not that kind), the sheer number of Mikes, Johns, Joes, and Anthonys (and their Italian variations) is totally ridiculous. just on my mother's side, there's 12 Joes, 8 Johns, 5 Anthonys, and a smattering of Mikes. I didn't exactly escape, either. my real first and middle names are Sean Michael. even with the variations of Joe, they all tend to be called Joe for short. Joseph = Joe. Giuseppe = Joe. I've even met a couple Giovannis who go by Joe, even though it's really John.