# Oliva (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/oliva/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,513 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,835 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 15,823 people |
| Change since 2000 | +31% (14,892 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Oliva in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 22% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 74% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Oliva in the United States, Argentina, Italy, Uruguay and Brazil.

## People named Oliva

- Fernando Nicolas Oliva, Argentine association football player
- Patrizio Oliva, boxer
- Jon Oliva, American musician
- Criss Oliva, American guitarist (1963–1993)
- Christian Oliva, association football player
- Alexandre Oliva, Brazilian software programmer, member of the Free Software Foundation, founder of the FSFL
- Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
- Ella Grasso, American politician; 83rd governor of Connecticut (1975-80)

## Similar surnames

Olivo, Olive.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.