Celebrities are known for giving their kids unique names, which is no different with Drew Barrymore. During a 2012 appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (via USA Today), the actor shared how her first daughter, Olive, got her name. “I was reading a book with my husband,” she recalled. “I was three months pregnant, and they said your baby is the size of an olive, and that was it. We never looked back.”
As for her second daughter, Frankie, Barrymore and Will Kopelman almost chose the name Pepper, but soon changed their minds. “Olive and Pepper. Like that’s two things you find in a pantry,” she joked when she returned to “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (via Los Angeles Times). In the end, Frankie just fit with the former couple. “It was just a name that came to my husband and I a few months before she was born, and we were sort of like, ‘I think this is it.'”
As her kids have grown up, Barrymore has adopted fitting nicknames for them. In a 2023 interview with the “People Every Day” podcast where Barrymore was speaking about empowering her kids, she shared, “My daughter Olive, her nickname is Bear, and I say, ‘Get that salmon, Bear. You get that salmon!’ And Frankie is Mousey. And I go, ‘You get that cheese, Mousey, you get that cheese!'”
