Olivia

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Olivia is a female name pronounced oh-LIV-ee-ah. The name was coined by Shakespeare as the name of a much-wooed aristocrat in his play Twelfth Night (1599).

He might have derived the name from the olive plant (latin: 'oliva') or used it as a feminine form of Oliver.

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 Longott, an American R&B singer
• 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 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, 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.