Olivia in Cursive

Olivia in cursive is 𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝒶. Many names pick up one or two older characters when they turn cursive, but Olivia does not. All six letters come from Unicode's Mathematical Script alphabet, with no borrowed e, o or capital, so the name looks even on any device that has the script letters.

Each of those letters takes two UTF-16 code units, so 𝒪𝓁𝒾𝓋𝒾𝒶 counts as 12 units against 6 for plain Olivia. In a name field that counts units, that still leaves plenty of room for a symbol or an emoji.

Olivia sits low and round on the page. The l is its only tall letter, and nothing drops below the line, so the name reads as one soft wave after the capital O.

Two things to watch. The v finishes high, at the middle of the line, so the i after it starts from there instead of from the bottom. And the name has two i's — leave both dots until the last a is written, so the pen does not stop halfway through.

Olivia comes from the Latin oliva, meaning olive. Both Oliva and Olivia were in use in English-speaking countries as early as the 13th century. Shakespeare did not invent the name, but the character Olivia in Twelfth Night made it much better known.

In the United States it has had a long climb. Olivia ranked 232nd for girls in 1880, the first year with records, fell to 542nd in 1970, and in 2019 became the most popular name for baby girls in the country.