Girl · English (respelling)
Alivia
Say it: uh-LIV-ee-uh
Meaning
A modern spelling of Olivia, a name first recorded in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and usually linked to Latin oliva 'olive'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
This spelling rose in the US alongside Olivia in the 1990s and 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 30,357 babies given this name since 1952
- At its height in 2009, about 1 in 1,000 girls
- 1,171 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Olivia
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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