Olavarria
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/olaβarja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Olavarria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CUCuba≈1 in 5.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 7K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 10Kfew records
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.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cuba, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Olavarria
- Spanish:/olaβarja/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Olavarria is found
(measured from records)Olavarria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #507 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Olavarria | 94 |
| CU Cuba | #602 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Olavarria | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,101 | 1 in 302K | 1.2K | Olavarria | 193 |
| AR Argentina | — | 827 | 1 in 55K | 827 | Olavarria | 44 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Olavarria | 42 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #386 | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Olavarria | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 183 | 1 in 19K | 183 | Olavarria | 16 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Manuel Antonio Carob. 1835CLnot in their usual nameChilean artist (1835-1903)
- Jorge Olavarríab. 1933VEVenezuelan journalist
- Cynthia Olavarríab. 1986USPuerto Rican actress, television host, and fashion model
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Olavarria?
- In Spanish /olaβarja/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Olavarria?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Olavarria in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olavarria. After it come Cuba, United States, Argentina and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Olavarria?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,101 people named Olavarria in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
- How common is Olavarria compared with other names?
- In Chile, Olavarria is the 507th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olavarriaThe 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, “Olavarria” — the 507th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.