Drei
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: from nd. drl ‘three’; used in compounds and surnames
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʁaɪ̯/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Drei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
136 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from nd. drl ‘three’; used in compounds and surnames
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Drei is read(measured from records)
Drei is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German34%
from nd. drl ‘three’; used in compounds and surnames
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
three
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
three (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 3; or describing a set with three elements)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Drei in Ukrainian.
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Drei in English.
- Italian7.0%
redução coloquial de Andrei
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Spanish5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Drei in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Drei 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 136 | 1 in 1.6M | 136 | Drei | 25 |
| PL Poland | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 8 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Drei | 16 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Drei | 16 |
| PE Peru | — | — | — | Drei | 8 |
136 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Drei is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of drye
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of dreie
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)
- Benedetto Dreib. 1580FRItalian architect
- Ercole Dreib. 1886ITItalian sculptor (1886-1973)
- Umberto Dreib. 1925ITcyclist
- Andrea Dreib. 1957chess player
- Davide Dreib. 1965ITItalian politician and mayor
- Alisa Dreib. 1978FIfigure skater
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 136 | #50,053 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #150,347 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #323,886 |
Reference works 1
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
- What does the name Drei mean, and where does it come from?
- from nd. drl ‘three’; used in compounds and surnames Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Drei?
- A machine transcription gives /dʁaɪ̯/ (IPA) for German.
- What are other forms of the name Drei?
- In the etymology graph, Drie and Dreissig are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Drei have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 136 people named Drei, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drei.
- Where is Drei most common?
- Drei is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Drei?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 136 people named Drei, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dreiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Drei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.