Olivian Society
Here's a less common name I'm starting to hear more and more these days on my television machine.
G4's Attack of the Show - hosted by Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse - Dollhouse run by Adelle Dewitt (Olivia Williams)
Fox's Fringe - division lead by field agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv)
ABC's new FlashForward - star nurse = Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger)
Fox's "24" last season - pres. Taylor's antagonistic daughter = Olivia (Sprague Grayden)
special (older) mentions: Olivia de Havilland, Olivia Kendall (is so Raven!), Olivia Newton John.
A quick peek over at NameVoyager shows that it's definitely on the rise. Btw, if you've never been, it's interesting to see how older names dipped for decades and recently returned to fashion, like Emma, Emily, Isabella, and Chloe for girls, and Ethan, Jacob, Joshua, Anthony, Zachary, and Daniel for boys, though the boys' names peak a couple of decades ago. It's hard to find male names that are currently climbing. Perhaps more names are entering the language and lowering the percentages all around. Also of note, the name "Gay" (for a woman) died out as the word took on its currently popular meaning. "Adolph" really died out by the '40s :)
"Gary" peaked in 1950, the year my dad - also Gary - was born. It wasn't really a common name until Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper) changed his name to it in 1925 on the advice of his casting director Nan Collins, who felt it evoked the toughness of her hometown of Gary, Indiana. Then the 60s came along, and Opie and "The Music Man" gayed it all up forever.
G4's Attack of the Show - hosted by Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse - Dollhouse run by Adelle Dewitt (Olivia Williams)
Fox's Fringe - division lead by field agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv)
ABC's new FlashForward - star nurse = Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger)
Fox's "24" last season - pres. Taylor's antagonistic daughter = Olivia (Sprague Grayden)
special (older) mentions: Olivia de Havilland, Olivia Kendall (is so Raven!), Olivia Newton John.
A quick peek over at NameVoyager shows that it's definitely on the rise. Btw, if you've never been, it's interesting to see how older names dipped for decades and recently returned to fashion, like Emma, Emily, Isabella, and Chloe for girls, and Ethan, Jacob, Joshua, Anthony, Zachary, and Daniel for boys, though the boys' names peak a couple of decades ago. It's hard to find male names that are currently climbing. Perhaps more names are entering the language and lowering the percentages all around. Also of note, the name "Gay" (for a woman) died out as the word took on its currently popular meaning. "Adolph" really died out by the '40s :)
"Gary" peaked in 1950, the year my dad - also Gary - was born. It wasn't really a common name until Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper) changed his name to it in 1925 on the advice of his casting director Nan Collins, who felt it evoked the toughness of her hometown of Gary, Indiana. Then the 60s came along, and Opie and "The Music Man" gayed it all up forever.