Oliveira
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives by an olive grove, or person from a place called Oliveira in Portugal
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔlibejɾɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oliveira is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 82(inferred from the name graph)
- AOAngola≈1 in 726
- UYUruguay1 in 1.8K
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 Oliveira 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.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- #46 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, 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)
Person who lives by an olive grove, or person from a place called Oliveira in Portugal.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oliveira 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #8 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 82 | — | Oliveira | 240 |
| AO Angola | #11 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | 5 | Oliveira | 66 |
| BR Brazil | #4 | 33,888as Olveira | 1 in 6.2K | 34K | Oliveira | 335 |
| FR France | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 1.2K | Oliveira | 6 |
| US United States | — | 27,551as Olvera | 1 in 12K | 28K | Oliveira | 424 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,045as Olvera | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | — | 18 |
| ES Spain | #425 | 6,783 | 1 in 7.4K | 6.8K | Oliveira | 160 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5,755 | 1 in 1.5K | 5.8K | Oliveira | 108 |
| UY Uruguay | #146 | 1,873 | 1 in 1.8K | 1.9K | Oliveira | 50 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Oliveira 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 Portuguese, olive tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Rio de Janeiro, Bahut, Minas Gerais, Brasil, Monforte, Castela, Vila Viçosa, Evora, Monsaraz, Argozelo, Azinhoso, Carção, Lisboa, Lagoaça, Barcelos, Braga, Celorico da Beira, Guarda, Vilarinho dos Galegos, Trás-os-Montes, Poyares, Almeida, Portugal, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Hamburg, London, Kopenhagen, Jerusalem, Dutch Brazil, Rep. Dominicana, Curaçao; olive oil seller
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Manoel de Oliveirab. 1908PTPortuguese film director (1908–2015)
- Bebetob. 1964BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Raíb. 1965BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian and French association football player
- Pedro Proençab. 1970PTnot in their usual namePortuguese football referee
- Ricardo Oliveirab. 1980BRBrazilian football player
- Marjorie Estianob. 1982BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress and singer
- Andersonb. 1988BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (born 1988)
- Nélson Oliveirab. 1991PTPortuguese footballer
- Sérgio Oliveirab. 1992PTPortuguese footballer
- Rogério Oliveira da Silvab. 1998BRBrazilian association football 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 49 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12M | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,311 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.8K | #803 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.8K | #803 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5.8K | #87 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.2K | — |
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 5 | #25 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Oliveira mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives by an olive grove, or person from a place called Oliveira in Portugal. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Oliveira?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔlibejɾɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Oliveira have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 125 thousand people named Oliveira in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oliveira.
- How common is the name Oliveira?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,783 people named Oliveira, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Oliveira compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Oliveira is the 8th most common surname of 45,564 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/oliveiraThe 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, “Oliveira” — the 8th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.