What does the name Olivia mean?

Q: What does the name Olivia mean?

Olivia means "From Latin Olīva, an early saints' name from olīva ('olive; olive branch')". It is a girl's name of Latin origin.

Olivia

Olivia means From Latin Olīva, an early saints' name from olīva ('olive; olive branch').

Gender	girl
Origin	Latin
Language	English
Starts with	O

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “From Latin Olīva, an early saints' name from olīva ('olive; olive branch')”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Pratyusha — Dawn, early morning light
Oliver — Possibly from Old Norse Óleifr ('ancestral' + 'relic'); popularly linked by folk etymology to the Latin word for olive tree
Lucas — From Ancient Greek Loukâs, via Latin Lucas
Jose — God will add, popular Kerala Latin Christian name

More girls' names of Latin origin

Isabella — Latinate and Italian form of Isabel, a form of Elizabeth, ultimately from Hebrew

Where this comes from

Olivia has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.