I love the name [name_f]Olive[/name_f]! It’s been one my top 3 names for many, many years, I could wax lyrical about how I find it chic and vintage feeling whilst not being fussy or too prim etc etc. But simply said: I love [name_f]Olive[/name_f]!
Problem: my step-nephew is called [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] (nn [name_u]Ollie[/name_u]).
I don’t see my stepbrothers too often but I am very close with my stepfather ([name_m]Oliver[/name_m]’s grandfather) and he will be the grandfather to any of my future hypothetical children. I feel like it would be awkward for my stepfather to have two grandchildren with very similar names.
I even like [name_u]Ollie[/name_u] as a nickname for [name_f]Olive[/name_f], along with the nicknames [name_f]Liv[/name_f] and [name_f]Livvy[/name_f].
Am I over thinking this? Is it not that big of a deal? Or should I mourn the loss of the name [name_f]Olive[/name_f] now?
I love olive! I think it might be a tad bit awkward about [name_m]Oliver[/name_m]. It would be better to use the nn [name_f]Liv[/name_f] and [name_f]Livvy[/name_f]. However I do like [name_u]Ollie[/name_u] more for a nn.
I don’t think it’s a problem at all. If it makes your stepfather feel weird, he could call her [name_f]Liv[/name_f] or [name_f]Livvy[/name_f], but I’m sure it’s fine.
S/O and I have [name_f]Lottie[/name_f] on our list, and we talked about having a similar issue, as our niece, who we see pretty often, is a Charl0tte nn Charl1e.
If they dont use the same nickname, or if one exclusively uses a nickname (like [name_f]Lottie[/name_f] and [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], or [name_u]Ollie[/name_u] and [name_f]Olive[/name_f]), then I think it works fine.
I don’t think it would be such a big deal, [name_f]Olive[/name_f] is a beautiful name and I have [name_f]Olivia[/name_f] in my name list for my baby and a nickname like [name_f]Liv[/name_f]/[name_f]Livvy[/name_f]/[name_f]Lulu[/name_f] will help break it up but, take my family for example. My eldest brother is named [name_m]Nickolas[/name_m], I also have an Uncle named [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] who named his first boy [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] ([name_u]Nicky[/name_u] for short) after my Grandpa [name_u]Nick[/name_u] ([name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]) and I have a cousin named Necolah - the Female version of [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] and things are fine, we call them all different like.
Nicknames help and It might be a tiny bit awkward to begin with but people do learn the difference.
[name_f]Lilly[/name_f] is also a popular name amongst my family for girls and if I was to go with [name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - [name_f]Lily[/name_f] would be her nickname.
I don’t think it will be a major issue! After all, if families have generation after generation of, say, [name_m]Williams[/name_m] or Johns, then similar or even the same names won’t cause confusion, whether they’re honor-related or not. An example: I have an great aunt [name_f]Colleen[/name_f], and a brother [name_m]Colin[/name_m]. We don’t see each other too frequently, but are close to [name_f]Colleen[/name_f]'s family and mother. It hasn’t caused conflict or confusion.
I don’t actually think it’s too big of a deal. If the kids were going to be playmates maybe, but considering many families name children after other relatives across many gwnerations, I don’t find having two grandchildren with similar names all that problematic.