Olmos
surname · Latin script
Meaning: olive tree; Toledo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/olmos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olmos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 2K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 3.1K
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)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
23,467 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
olive tree; Toledo
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olmos 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 | #269 | 23,467 | 1 in 1.9K | 23K | Olmos | 88 |
| US United States | — | 9,895 | 1 in 34K | 9.9K | Olmos | 278 |
| ES Spain | #416 | 9,824 | 1 in 5.1K | 9.8K | Olmos | 156 |
| CO Colombia | #654 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 5 | Olmos | 88 |
| CL Chile | #468 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Olmos | 83 |
| BO Bolivia | #196 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Olmos | 46 |
| UY Uruguay | #357 | 1,729 | 1 in 2K | 1.7K | Olmos | 32 |
23,467 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); 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)
Olmos is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Edward James, US actor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Uzbek, diamond
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)
- Néstor Guillénb. 1890BOnot in their usual namePresident of Bolivia (1890-1966)
- Guillermo Eizaguirreb. 1909ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer (1909–1986)
- Josep Lluís Albiñanab. 1943ESnot in their usual nameSpanish judge and politician
- Edward James Olmosb. 1947USAmerican actor
- Tony Olmosb. 1973Director, screenwriter and cinematographer
- Bodie Olmosb. 1975USAmerican actor
- Alberto Olmosb. 1975ESSpanish writer
- Juan Augusto Gómezb. 1976ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer (born 1976)
- Gualberto Mojicab. 1984BOnot in their usual nameBolivian association football player
- Giuliana Olmosb. 1993MXMexican female tennis player
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 26 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 23K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.9K | #3,596 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9.8K | #569 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9.8K | #569 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.6K | #3,620 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,644 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.7K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Olmos mean, and where does it come from?
- olive tree; Toledo Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Olmos?
- A machine transcription gives /olmos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Olmos have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Olmos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olmos.
- Where is Olmos most common?
- Olmos is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Olmos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 23,467 people named Olmos, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Olmos compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Olmos is the 269th 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/olmosThe 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, “Olmos” — the 269th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.