Olliver
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oʊɫɪvɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Olliver is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. see Oliver .
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 189K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.3K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. see Oliver .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Olliver 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Olliver | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 293K | 335 | Olliver | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 189K | 594 | Olliver | 91 |
| US United States | 272 | 1 in 1.2M | 282 | Olliver | 142 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 1 | Olliver | 57 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Olliver | 56 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 76 | 1 in 1.3K | 76 | — | 3 |
| GD Grenada | 1 | 1 in 113K | 3 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
- Arthur Olliverb. 1916AUAustralian footballer and coach
- Mike Olliverb. 1959USAmerican basketball player (born 1959)
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 594 | #9,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 282 | #65,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 272 | #71,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 76 | #186 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #222 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Olliver mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Sussex. see Oliver . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Olliver?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊɫɪvɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Olliver have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Olliver in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled olliver.
- Where is Olliver most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Olliver is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Olliver?
- In the United States, the national register counted 272 people named Olliver in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/olliverThe 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, “Olliver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.