Drui

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Drui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 11M(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1Mas Drouilly
  • RURussia≈1 in 2.6Mas Друй

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Drui itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈54 named Друй, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11M (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DruiLatin(measured from records)
ДруйCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Друй in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Drui counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Drui is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈54 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Друй56
UA Ukraine≈6 est.≈1 in 7M—Друй8
CR Costa Rica5as Drouilly1 in 1M5——
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——
IL Israel———Друй1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Drui is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Druĭ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Druĭ

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Drui is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In sga, poetic form of druí

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Drui have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 54 people named Друй in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Drui most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Drui is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 11 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Drui?
In Czechia, the national register counted 1 people named Drui, about 1 in 11 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Drui”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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