Savas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɑvɑz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Savas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Both from Turkish Savaş and Greek Σάββας (Sávvas), the latter from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”). Several variants exist, such as Savvides, Savvopoulos, Savopoulos, Sava, Savvas.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 937K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Savaş in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, CY Cyprus and 2 more.
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)
- Turkish Savaşand(measured from records)
- Aramaicסבא“grandfather“grandfather, old man”(measured from records)
Both from Turkish Savaş and Greek Σάββας (Sávvas), the latter from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”). Several variants exist, such as Savvides, Savvopoulos, Savopoulos, Sava, Savvas.
Sources 2
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Savas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #518 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | #67 | Savaş | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Savaş | 89 |
| CY Cyprus | #196 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Savaş | 8 |
| US United States | — | 355 | 1 in 937K | 771 | Savas | 204 |
| FR France | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 226K | 51 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 22 | Savaş | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 84 | Savaş | 12 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Savas 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, passive infinitive of sava
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In io, present of savar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, present of savi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, acidic
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)
- Theodore P. Savasb. 1901USAmerican publisher
- Kool Savasb. 1975DEGerman rapper Turkish origin
- Tommy Savasb. 1984USAmerican actor and producer
- Ömer SavaşTRTurkish academic
- Berkant SavaşTRTurkish academic
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 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 771 | #32,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 684 | #31,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 678 | #33,596 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 84 | #12,646 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 51 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Savas mean, and where does it come from?
- Both from Turkish Savaş and Greek Σάββας (Sávvas), the latter from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”). Several variants exist, such as Savvides, Savvopoulos, Savopoulos, Sava, Savvas. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Savas?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑvɑz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Savas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Savas in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savaş.
- How common is the name Savas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 355 people named Savas in 2020, about 1 in 937 thousand residents.
- How common is Savas compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Savas is the 518th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/savasThe 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, “Savas” — the 518th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.