Olivier

Olivier is the 5,031st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,756 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,200.

By the numbers

People: 6,756
Rank: 5,031st
How common: 1 in 44,200
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Olivier described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.7%
Black, not Hispanic 24.5%
Hispanic or Latino 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Olivier

Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)English actor and director
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756–1814)French entomologist and botanist
Eugène Olivier (1881–1964)French fencer and Olympic champion
George Borg Olivier (1911–1980)Maltese politician and attorney
Abelardo Olivier (1877–1951)Italian fencer
Lucien Olivier (1838–1883)chef
Joseph Olivier (1874–1901)French rugby union player
Marc-Antoine Olivier (born 1996)French swimmer

People named Olivier with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Olivier

Also a first name

Olivier has been given to 2,010 American babies as a first name since 1924, peaking in 2011. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.