Olivé
surname · Latin script
Olivé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-E.
- GDGrenada1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 20K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,712 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)- Middle Englisholyve(measured from records)
- Old Frencholive“olive“olive, olive tree”(measured from records)
- Latinolīva“olive”(measured from records)
- Etruscan*𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀*eleiva(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*loiwomcompare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi“tallow”(measured from records)
From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)). Doublet of oliva. Displaced native Old English eleberġe, literally "oil berry."
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Irish first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Olivé 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,712 | 1 in 58K | 19K | — | 117 |
| ES Spain | 2,497 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Olivé | 40 |
| AR Argentina | 368 | 1 in 124K | 368 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 62 | 1 in 1.8K | 62 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 15 | — | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 6 |
5,712 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Francesc Carbó i Olivéb. 1868ESSpanish painter (1868-1924)
- Ceferí Olivé Cabréb. 1907ESSpanish artist (1907-1995)
- Enric Olivé Martínezb. 1914ESSpanish politician (1914-2004)
- Josep Dalmau i Olivéb. 1926ESSpanish priest and writer
- Pere Olivéb. 1941ESSpanish comics artist
- Lluís Maria de Puigb. 1945ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician and historian (1945–2012)
- Santiago Riera i Olivéb. 1947ESSpanish jurist, trade unionist and politician
- Laia Cañigueralb. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Joan Olivéb. 1984ESSpanish motorcycle racer
- Clara Queraltó i Olivéb. 1988ESCatalan writer
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Olivé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-E… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Irish first names and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Olivé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Olivé, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Olivé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olivé is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olivé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,712 people named Olivé in 2010, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oliv%C3%A9The 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, “Olivé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.