Olives

surname · Latin script

Meaning: plural of oliva

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/oliβes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Olives is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 60K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 318K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.4M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

827 people

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

plural of oliva

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Olives 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.

Where Olives is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain8271 in 60K827Olives74
FR France≈490 est.≈1 in 140K60—2
PH Philippines≈170 est.≈1 in 663K—Olives17
AR Argentina1431 in 318K143Olives32
US United States1371 in 2.4M221Olives117
UY Uruguay201 in 169K20Olives3
PT Portugal≈19 est.≈1 in 540K—Olives2

827 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Olives is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

    Also written Olivès, Olivés

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ólives

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain

    Also written Olivés, Olivès

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

185019001950Josep de Olives Magarola, b. 1861Josep Peiró Olives, b. 1917Guillermina Peiró i Olives, b. 1924Guillem de Olives Pons, b. 1927Tomas Serra Olives, b. 1944

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)

FormalEstimado/a Olives,Dear Olives, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Olives,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Olives
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—827#5,237
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—827#5,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020221#89,848
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—143—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010137#125,282
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000137#117,538
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196194—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197187—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198163—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199160—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194128—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—20—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Olives mean, and where does it come from?
plural of oliva Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Olives?
A machine transcription gives /oliβes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Olives have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 827 people named Olives, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olives.
Where is Olives most common?
Olives is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 60 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Olives?
In Spain, the national register counted 827 people named Olives, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.

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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, “Olives”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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