Olivá
surname · Latin script
Olivá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 37th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin olīva.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 556(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 556 (inferred from the name graph)
37,188 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Oliva in AR Argentina, US United States, CL Chile and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Inherited from Latin olīva.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olivá 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #185 | 37,188 | 1 in 1.2K | 37K | Oliva | 110 |
| PH Philippines | #523 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Oliva | 71 |
| ES Spain | #189 | 24,210 | 1 in 2.1K | 24K | Oliva | 190 |
| US United States | — | 19,513 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Oliva | 336 |
| GT Guatemala | #37 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Oliva | 76 |
| HN Honduras | #72 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 556 | — | Oliva | 46 |
| CL Chile | #259 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Oliva | 109 |
| SV El Salvador | #239 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Oliva | 45 |
37,188 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Olivá mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin olīva. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Olivá have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Olivá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oliva.
- How common is the name Olivá?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 37,188 people named Olivá, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Olivá compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Olivá is the 185th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oliv%C3%A1The 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, “Olivá” — the 185th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.