The surname Olive
A place surname, carried by 5,712 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex O410 Also a first name
Origin
Medieval form of the Latin saint's name Oliva "olive"; revived in the 19th century when flower and plant names became fashionable. The surname is topographical, often representing an Anglicization of continental European surnames such as Spanish Oliva.
Olive is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 5,712 people named Olive in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,052 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,622.
Who is named Olive
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Olive identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 5.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 3.1%
- Two or more races 2.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Olive has the Soundex code O410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code O410.
Questions
- Where does the surname Olive come from?
- Medieval form of the Latin saint's name Oliva "olive"; revived in the 19th century when flower and plant names became fashionable. The surname is topographical, often representing an Anglicization of continental European surnames such as Spanish Oliva.
- How common is the surname Olive?
- 5,712 people in the United States had the surname Olive in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,052 Americans. It ranked 6,021st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Olive?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Olive identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Olive?
- Olive is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Olive getting more or less common?
- More common. 5,622 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,712 in 2010, up 1.6%.
- Is Olive also a first name?
- Yes. Olive is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.