Scriven
surname · Latin script
Meaning: clerk, copyist, from Middle English scrivein, from Old French escrivein
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈskɹɪvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Scriven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 157K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.9M
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 157K (inferred from the name graph)
2,116 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
- Middle Englishscrivein(measured from records)
- Old Frenchescrivein(measured from records)
clerk, copyist, from Middle English scrivein, from Old French escrivein
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Scriven 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,116 | 1 in 157K | 2.1K | Scriven | 7 |
| ES Spain | 27 | 1 in 1.9M | 27 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
2,116 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Scriven is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Lat scriptor ‘writer, clerk’; first attested Ricardus scriptor 1158 P (So)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, from OF escrivein, escrivain writer, scribe (LL scribanus, for class. L scriba; cf. Scribe). Vars.: Scrivener, Scrivener (with the addition of the ME agent suffix); Scribner. Patrs.: Eng.: Scrivens, Scrivin(g)s Dims.: Scorzelli, Scorziello, Scorzetti. Augs.: Scorzon(e), Scorsone.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In Irish, An English name of Norman origin (from escrivan, writer) in Dublin in the late seventeenth century, but since mainly associated with Co. Cork
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Joseph M. Scrivenb. 1819GBIrish philanthropist (1819–1886)
- Aubrey Scrivenb. 1904GBEnglish footballer (1904-1988)
- Bert Scrivenb. 1908GBEnglish footballer (1908-2001)
- Margaret Scrivenb. 1912GBBritish tennis player (1912–2001)
- Michael Scrivenb. 1928AUAustralian academic
- Peter Scrivenb. 1930AUAustralian puppeteer (1930–1998)
- Charles Scrivenb. 1945USAmerican theologian
- Mary Stenson Scrivenb. 1962USUnited States federal judge
- Jaden Michaelsb. 1992USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and songwriter
- Olivia Scrivenb. 1997CACanadian film actor and actor
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,137 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 27 | #69,568 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27 | #67,696 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #100,805 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #287,539 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #383,443 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 Scriven mean, and where does it come from?
- clerk, copyist, from Middle English scrivein, from Old French escrivein Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Scriven?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈskɹɪvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Scriven have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Scriven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scriven.
- Where is Scriven most common?
- Scriven is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 157 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Scriven?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,116 people named Scriven in 2010, about 1 in 157 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/scrivenThe 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, “Scriven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.