Olave
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/olabe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olave is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Olave, a Castilianized form of Basque Olabe.
- CLChile≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 10K
- ARArgentina1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Olave, a Castilianized form of Basque Olabe.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olave counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Olave is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gv, a male given name from Old Norse, equivalent to English Olaf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacinto Olaveb. 1877ESSpanish painter (1877-1957)
- Antonio Olave Palominob. 1928PEPeruvian artisan
- Elvira Hernándezb. 1951CLnot in their usual nameChilean writer
- Orlando Olave Villanobab. 1969COColombian Roman Catholic bishop
- Rodrigo Buenob. 1973ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer (1973-2000)
- Laura Olaveb. 1975UYUruguayan tennis player
- Jámison Olaveb. 1981COColombian footballer
- Ulises Mauro Buenob. 1985ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian singer
- José Daniel Quiñones Olaveb. 1994COColombian footballer
- Chris Olaveb. 2000USAmerican football player (born 2000)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 155 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Olave mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Olave, a Castilianized form of Basque Olabe. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Olave?
- A machine transcription gives /olabe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Olave have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Olave in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olave.
- How common is the name Olave?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,636 people named Olave, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Olave compared with other names?
- In Chile, Olave is the 253rd most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olaveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Olave” — the 253rd most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.