erisTavi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: literally 'head of the people'; became Éristov

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

/ɪɹistəvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 5.1Kas ერისთავი(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 2.7M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 9.1M

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 erisTavi 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.

Georgia (measured from records)

783 named ერისთავი

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

erisTaviLatin(measured from records)
ერისთავიGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

literally 'head of the people'; became Éristov

Sources 1

  • Russian Surnames

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

erisTavi 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 erisTavi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GE Georgia#845783as ერისთავი1 in 5.1K783erisTavi30
US United States—≈26 est.≈1 in 13MlistederisTavi29
PL Poland—141 in 2.7M11—2
GB United Kingdom—≈7 est.≈1 in 9.1M—erisTavi9
DE Germany—≈6 est.≈1 in 13M—erisTavi8

783 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling ერისთავი. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Russian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Эристави, Эристов, Еристави, Еріставі, Ёристави

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ėristavi

19 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)

erisTavi 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 English, Georgian feudal office, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine strategos and normally translated into English as "duke"

    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)

1700180019002000Georgiy Evseevich Eristov, b. 1769Raphael Eristavi, b. 1824Barbare Jorjadze, b. 1833David Eristavi, b. 1847Gandegili, b. 1864Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria, b. 1868Mary Eristavi, b. 1888Konstantine Eristavi, b. 1889Maksym Eristavi, b. 1986

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)

Formalპატივცემულო Eristavi,Dear Eristavi, (English)
Informalპატივცემულო Eristavi,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting erisTavi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#126,440
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#257,543
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 erisTavi mean, and where does it come from?
literally 'head of the people'; became Éristov Recorded by Russian Surnames.
How do you pronounce erisTavi?
A machine transcription gives /ɪɹistəvi/ (IPA) for Georgian.
In which country does erisTavi have the most bearers?
In Georgia, the national register counted about 783 people named ერისთავი, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is erisTavi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, erisTavi is densest in Poland — about 1 in 2.7 million people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name erisTavi?
In Poland, the national register counted 14 people named erisTavi in 2026, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
How common is erisTavi compared with other names?
In Georgia, erisTavi is the 845th most common surname of 36,686 surnames recorded there.

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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, “erisTavi” — the 845th most common surname in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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