Olivêra

surname · Latin script

Olivêra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Catalan, from olivera.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 48(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 667
  • PEPeru≈1 in 1.7K

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.

Uruguay (measured from records)

70,194 people

Sources
299 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 48 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Olivera in AR Argentina, PE Peru, UY Uruguay and 4 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)

Borrowed from Catalan, from olivera.

Sources 3

  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olivêra 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.

Where Olivêra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UY Uruguay#770,1941 in 4870KOlivera102
AR Argentina#9568,1511 in 66768KOlivera120
BR Brazil#67332,2301 in 6.6K32KOlivera113
PE Peru#254≈19,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Olivera95
US United States—9,1081 in 37K9.1KOlivera299
BO Bolivia—≈6,900 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Olivera51
NI Nicaragua#290≈1,800 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Olivera19

70,194 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Olivêra under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Olivêra mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Catalan, from olivera. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,… and 1 other source.
In which country does Olivêra have the most bearers?
In Uruguay, the national register counted about 70 thousand people named Olivêra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olivera.
Where is Olivêra most common?
Olivêra is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 people carrying it.
How common is the name Olivêra?
In Uruguay, the national register counted 70,194 people named Olivêra, about 1 in 48 residents.
How common is Olivêra compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Olivêra is the 7th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Olivêra” — the 7th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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