Olivar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: olive color
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/olibaɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olivar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 6.6K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 6.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Olivar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
115,900 named Oliver, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
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)
olive color
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olivar 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 | — | 115,900as Oliver | 1 in 2.9K | 146K | Olivar | 175 |
| ES Spain | — | 18,204as Oliver | 1 in 2.7K | 24K | Olivar | 94 |
| PH Philippines | #430 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Olivar | 69 |
| VE Venezuela | #600 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Olivar | 37 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,479as Oliver | 1 in 13K | 3.5K | Olivar | 41 |
| SV El Salvador | #455 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Olivar | 23 |
| NI Nicaragua | #394 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Olivar | 9 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 417 | 1 in 12K | 417 | — | 14 |
115,900 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling oliver. 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Marçal Olivar i Daydíb. 1900ESSpanish art historian, philologist and historian (1900-1994)
- R. Olivar Bertrandb. 1911ESSpanish historian
- Jordan Olivarb. 1915USAmerican football player and coach (1915-1990)
- Alexandre Olivar i Daydíb. 1919ESSpanish Benedictine monk, patrologist and liturgist (1919-2018)
- Cédric Olivarb. 1995FRFrench judoka
- Gerard Olivarb. 2000researcher
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,179 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,808 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,388 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,386 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 970 | #24,224 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 417 | #694 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Olivar mean, and where does it come from?
- olive color Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Olivar?
- A machine transcription gives /olibaɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Olivar?
- In the etymology graph, Oliva and Olivo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Olivar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 116 thousand people named Oliver, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Olivar?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 417 people named Olivar, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Olivar compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Olivar is the 394th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Olivar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olivarThe 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, “Olivar” — the 394th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.