Drivas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Andreas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Drivas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 878K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 29K
- GRGreece≈1 in 81K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Δριβας in GR Greece.
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(measured from records)
from Andreas.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Drivas 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.
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
Drivas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, second-person singular past historic of driver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of driva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, present of drivi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Līvānu novada Rožupes pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Druvas" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Dimitrios Drivasb. 1872GRswimmer
- Georgios Drivasb. 1885GRGreek politician
- Anastasios Drivasb. 1899GRGreek writer
- Robert Drivasb. 1938USAmerican actor (1935–1986)
- George Drivasb. 1970GRGreek artist and filmmaker (born 1970)
- Kyriakos DrivasGRresearcher
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 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 390 | #56,551 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 358 | #54,020 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Drivas mean, and where does it come from?
- from Andreas. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Drivas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Drivas in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drivas.
- How common is the name Drivas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Drivas in 2010, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/drivasThe 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, “Drivas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.