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The OLIVA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,892 2241 0.006 55
United States (1880 census) 85 34983 0 2
Change since 1880 +14807 +32742 +N/A +53
Other Countries
Australia 139 10597 0.001 9
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for OLIVA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 3,317 1168 0.010 98
Florida 2,724 875 0.017 170
Texas 1,603 1801 0.008 77
New York 1,399 1554 0.007 74
Illinois 748 2054 0.006 60
Top States for OLIVA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Florida 2,724 875 0.017 170
Rhode Island 109 1774 0.010 104
Connecticut 335 1543 0.010 98
California 3,317 1168 0.010 98
Nevada 186 1496 0.009 93

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

Classification and Origin of OLIVA

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the OLIVA 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 OLIVA 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 OLIVA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Asian/Pacific 471 3.16
Mixed Race 127 0.85
Black/African American 83 0.56
Native American/Alaskan 19 0.13
White (Hispanic) 9,946 66.79
White (Caucasian) 4,246 28.51

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

Meaning of OLIVA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of OLIVA.

Similar names to OLIVA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as OLIVA.

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 OLIVA

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