Olivia

Proper noun

Olivia

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first / Methought she purg’d the air of pestilence.1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act I, scene 1
   • I intended to call her after Aunt Grizel, but my wife who, during pregnancy, had been reading romances, insisted upon her being called Olivia. In less than another year we had another daughter, and now I was determined that Grizel should be her name; but a rich relation taking a fancy to stand...1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
2. A city, the county seat of Renville County, Minnesota, United States, named for a female station agent named Olive.
3. An unincorporated community in North Carolina, United States; named for tobacco businessman W. J. Olive.