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olea Name Meaning and History

Spanish: habitational name from places in the provinces of Cantabria, Palencia, and Burgos named Olea, possibly from Basque ola ‘forge’, ‘ironworks’ + the definite article -a.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of olea Families in the US in 1920
Number of olea families
 9-15
 4-8
 1-3
 0
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