Rïvas
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rïvas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Ciudad de Mexico; v. Ribas.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 99(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 167
- NINicaragua≈1 in 175
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- #419 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 99 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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 Rivas in VE Venezuela, US United States, SV El Salvador and 4 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)
Ciudad de Mexico; v. Ribas
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rïvas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #21 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 167 | 1.3K | Rivas | 114 |
| US United States | #889 | 76,205 | 1 in 4.4K | 79K | Rivas | 450 |
| SV El Salvador | #15 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 99 | 71K | Rivas | 106 |
| ES Spain | #98 | 45,776 | 1 in 1.1K | 46K | Rivas | 201 |
| AR Argentina | #167 | 41,632 | 1 in 1.1K | 42K | Rivas | 126 |
| NI Nicaragua | #14 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 175 | — | Rivas | 76 |
| PY Paraguay | #81 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 401 | — | Rivas | 64 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 7,660 | 1 in 442 | 7.7K | — | 59 |
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: asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rïvas mean, and where does it come from?
- Ciudad de Mexico; v. Ribas Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Rïvas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 171 thousand people named Rïvas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rivas.
- How common is the name Rïvas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 76,205 people named Rïvas in 2010, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Rïvas compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Rïvas is the 21st most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%AFvasThe 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, “Rïvas” — the 21st most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.