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The OLLIVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 282 65668 0 1
United States (1880 census) 999 5465 0.002 20
Change since 1880 -717 -60203 +N/A -19
Other Countries
Australia 104 13781 0.001 6
United Kingdom 454 9497 0.001 10
Top States for OLLIVER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 57 30560 0.000 5
Florida 37 49981 0.000 2
New York 19 104359 0.000 1
North Carolina 18 30163 0.000 2
Washington 15 54458 0.000 3
Top States for OLLIVER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 10 15960 0.001 13
Pennsylvania 57 30560 0.000 5
Mississippi 9 19569 0.000 3
Washington 15 54458 0.000 3
Arizona 12 53312 0.000 2

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called OLLIVER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called OLLIVER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called OLLIVER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a OLLIVER by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of OLLIVER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OLLIVER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the OLLIVER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of OLLIVER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 214 75.89
Black/African American 58 20.57
Mixed Race 6 2.13
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan None reported 0
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the OLLIVER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of OLLIVER in historical publications

OLLIVER. See Oliver.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to OLLIVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLLIVER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for OLLIVER

The following words are slight variants of OLLIVER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.