Olivar — Family Name, Records and Arms

Search old registers for Olivar and you will soon meet Olivares too. In origin, the name means “Olive groves”.

• French birth records list 519 children named Olivar between 1891 and 2000. Births under the name grew in the later decades. According to the 2010 US Census, the Olivar surname had 1,456 bearers. Of these, 70% identified as Hispanic or Latino.
• Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.
• Before spelling was fixed, Olivares was also written Olivar.

Olivar coat of arms

Arms linked to Olivares and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Olivar report, with a museum-style coat of arms.