Meaning of the nameOliveira
- Male
- O-li-vei-ra
Oliveira is a toponymic surname also used as a given name, whose origin may lie in the tree oliveira or in the word ulveira.
Meaning
The meaning of Oliveira is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
- People (2022)
- 4,624
- Rank in Brazil
- #2,897
- Median age
- 62 years
- 2010 Census
- 7,230
- people
Oliveira in the 2022 Census
People with the first name Oliveira, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1950s (1,152 people).
135 women 4,489 men
Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.
Where the name Oliveira is most common
States with the highest share of people named Oliveira in the population, in the 2022 Census.
- Goiás 0.005%
- Minas Gerais 0.004%
- Rio Grande do Norte 0.004%
- Mato Grosso 0.004%
- Ceará 0.004%
All states
| State | People | % of population |
|---|---|---|
| Minas Gerais | 891 | 0.004% |
| São Paulo | 744 | 0.002% |
| Goiás | 352 | 0.005% |
| Ceará | 316 | 0.004% |
| Paraná | 277 | 0.002% |
| Rio de Janeiro | 269 | 0.002% |
| Pernambuco | 161 | 0.002% |
| Mato Grosso | 145 | 0.004% |
| Rio Grande do Norte | 143 | 0.004% |
| Bahia | 141 | 0.001% |
| Espírito Santo | 138 | 0.004% |
| Pará | 134 | 0.002% |
| Paraíba | 123 | 0.003% |
| Maranhão | 113 | 0.002% |
| Alagoas | 83 | 0.003% |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | 78 | 0.003% |
| Rondônia | 69 | 0.004% |
| Santa Catarina | 63 | 0.001% |
| Amazonas | 59 | 0.002% |
| Distrito Federal | 56 | 0.002% |
| Tocantins | 55 | 0.004% |
| Rio Grande do Sul | 53 | 0.001% |
| Sergipe | 52 | 0.002% |
| Piauí | 43 | 0.001% |
| Roraima | 30 | 0.005% |
| Acre | 22 | 0.003% |
States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.
About the name Oliveira
Oliveira is, above all, a toponymic surname and the name of places in Portugal and Brazil; Wiktionary also records the surname as common in Galicia. For the origin, Wiktionary gives two possibilities: oliveira, the Portuguese word for the olive tree, or ulveira, 'ulvaria'. The word oliveira, in turn, comes from Latin olivaria, according to Priberam. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,624 people with Oliveira as a first name, with a median age of 62. It is almost always a male name, and most of those recorded were born before 1970.
Sources
- Wiktionary: Oliveira · en.wiktionary.org · origin
- Priberam: oliveira · dicionario.priberam.org · origin
Questions about the name Oliveira
What does the name Oliveira mean?
The meaning of Oliveira is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.
How many people are named Oliveira in Brazil?
IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 4,624 people with the first name Oliveira, which ranks it number 2,897 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1950s.
Is Oliveira a boy's or a girl's name?
Oliveira is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 135 women and 4,489 men had this name.
In which Brazilian state is Oliveira most common?
Proportionally, in Goiás: 0.005% of the state's population is named Oliveira (352 people), according to the 2022 Census.
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