Oliverio
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Oliverio is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Óláfr/related Germanic forms, later adapted to French Olivier by folk etymology with latin olivarius 'olive'.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 61K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 169K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Old Norse Óláfr/related Germanic forms, later adapted to French Olivier by folk etymology with latin olivarius 'olive'.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Oliverio | 33 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Oliverio | 34 |
| US United States | — | 1,671 | 1 in 199K | 1.7K | Oliverio | 138 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 169K | 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)
- Gaspare Oliveriob. 1887ITItalian archaeologist
- Alberto Oliveriob. 1938ITItalian biologist
- Mario Oliveriob. 1953ITItalian politician and mayor
- Donato Oliveriob. 1956ITItalian Catholic priest and Bishop
- Nicodemo Oliveriob. 1956ITItalian politician
- Antonio Denariumb. 1964BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian businessman and politician, former governor of Roraima
- Pierluigi Oliveriob. 1969USAmerican politician
- Albertina Oliveriob. 1971ITItalian philosopher (born 1971)
- Nicholas St. Johnb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter and actor
- James OliverioUSAmerican composer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,266 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,540 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 740 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 98 | #11,259 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 82 | #1,656 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 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.
- In which country does Oliverio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Oliverio in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oliverio.
- 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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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 2026-10-10.