These images were created by use of Hamrick Software - U.S. Surname Distribution page. I encourage you to visit their site and consider their software products. At their site you can create a surname distribution for other names you are researching.

These maps show the distribution of people with the surname OLIVE within the 50 United States. The 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, and 1990's phone books were used. Hamrick notes that the Census data is a sampling of 1 in 100 names, so the 1990 data is the most accurate.

Fred Olive - folive@uab.edu