French: from olive ‘olive’ (see Oliva).English: usually an Americanized form of a Romance name such as
Oliva, Olivo, etc.Catalan (Olivé):
variant spelling of Oliver.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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