OLIVIA

'Olivia'
Gender:	Female
Origin:	Latin
Meaning:	Peace

'Olivia' is a female name pronounced oh-LIV-ee-ah.
Latinate name, coined by Shakespeare for the rich heiress wooed by the duke in Twelfth Night (1599). He might have derived the name from the olive plant (latin: 'oliva') or used it as a feminine form of Oliver.^[1]
In addition to many people forenamed "Olivia", the following people and things are sometimes known simply as "Olivia":

★ 835 Olivia, a minor planet

★ Olivia, Minnesota, a town in the United States of America

★ Olivia de Berardinis, pin-up artist

★ Olivia de Havilland, double Oscar-winning Japanese-born American actress and leading lady in Gone with the Wind

★ Olivia Longott, an American R&B singer,professionally known as Olivia

★ Olivia Lufkin, sometimes called OLIVIA, a Japanese singer

★ Olivia MFSK, an amateur radio digital transmission protocol

★ Olivia Newton-John, an Australian singer and actress, is occasionally referred to simply as "Olivia" on her album covers.

★ Olivia Ong, Singaporean singer.

★ Olivia the pig, protagonist of several children's books by Ian Falconer

★ Olivia the Band, a Christian rock band from Haleiwa, Hawaii.

★ ''Olivia'', a novel published in 1949 by Dorothy Bussy under the pen name "Olivia"

★ ''Olivia'', a 1951 French motion picture based on this novel.

★ ''Connect'', a lifestyle social networking destination for lesbians.

★ ''Olivia'', a play by William Gorman Wills

★ Olivia Benson, a fictional character on , played by Mariska Hargitay.

★ Olivia, a minor character in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''.

★ Olivia, a fictional character from ''Dreamfall''.

★ Olivia, a character in Shakespeare's play ''Twelfth Night''.

★ The singer of the band No Commercial Value.

★ Olivia Records, a record label

★ A common misspelling of Oliva, Spain.

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1. Meaning of Olivia