Oliverio
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Old Norse Óláfr/related Germanic forms, later adapted to French Olivier by folk etymology with latin olivarius 'olive' (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/olibɛrio/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Oliverio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 18Kfew records
- ARArgentina1 in 61K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Oliverio
- Spanish:/olibɛrio/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ɔlibeɾju/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Old Norse Óláfr/related Germanic forms, later adapted to French Olivier by folk etymology with latin olivarius 'olive'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Oliverio is found
(measured from records)Oliverio 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Oliverio | 33 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Oliverio | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,671 | 1 in 199K | 1.7K | Oliverio | 138 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 155K | 746 | Oliverio | 62 |
| AR Argentina | — | 740 | 1 in 61K | 740 | Oliverio | 47 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 98 | 1 in 86K | 98 | Oliverio | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | #906 | 82 | 1 in 62K | 82 | Oliverio | 5 |
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); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Oliverio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Oliver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, var. regional de Olivero
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Dignidad
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Mario Oliveriob. 1953ITItalian politician and mayor
- Antonio Denariumb. 1964BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian businessman and politician, former governor of Roraima
- Nicholas St. Johnb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter and actor
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)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Oliverio mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Óláfr/related Germanic forms, later adapted to French Olivier by folk etymology with latin olivarius 'olive'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Oliverio?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /olibɛrio/; in Portuguese /ɔlibeɾju/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Oliverio?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Oliverio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oliverio. After it come Italy, United States, Brazil and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Oliverio?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,671 people named Oliverio in 2010, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
- How common is Oliverio compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Oliverio is the 906th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oliverioThe 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, “Oliverio” — the 906th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.