How common is the surname Olivares?

23,982 people in the United States had the surname Olivares in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,874 Americans. It ranked 1,490th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Olivares getting more or less common?

More common. 16,857 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,982 in 2010, up 42%.

The surname Olivares

A Spanish surname, carried by 23,982 people in the United States.

4 syllables Soundex O416

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Olivares is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

Spanish origin

From Spanish.

One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 23,982 people named Olivares in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,874 Americans. That is up 42% since 2000, when the Census counted 16,857.

#1,490

rank among US surnames

23,982

people in 2010

8.1

per 100,000 Americans

+42.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,961)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,481	Francisco	24,095	12,814
#1,482	Crow	24,089	12,817
#1,483	Bloom	24,081	12,821
#1,484	Sun	24,058	12,833
#1,485	Tompkins	24,056	12,834
#1,486	Jung	24,026	12,850
#1,487	Nance	24,018	12,855

Who is named Olivares

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Olivares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 3.9% as white (not Hispanic).

Hispanic or Latino (any race) 95%
White (not Hispanic) 3.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Two or more races 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Olivares

Olivares has the Soundex code O416, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O416.

Other Spanish surnames

All 992 Spanish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Olivares come from?: From Spanish.
How common is the surname Olivares?: 23,982 people in the United States had the surname Olivares in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,874 Americans. It ranked 1,490th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Olivares?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Olivares identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 3.9% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Olivares getting more or less common?: More common. 16,857 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 23,982 in 2010, up 42%.