Rïvas

surname · Latin script

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. Rïvas is also written Ривас in Cyrillic, รบส in Thai and 리바스 in Korean (Hangul).

  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 93(inferred from the name graph)
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 170
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 170

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 Rïvas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈170,000 people, est.

#419 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

5 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
450 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 93 (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Rïvas in other scripts: Cyrillic, Thai, Korean (Hangul) and 1 more

(measured from records)
RïvasLatin(measured from records)
РивасRïvas in Cyrillic(measured from records)
รบสRïvas in Thai(measured from records)
리바스Rïvas in Korean (Hangul)(measured from records)
ΡιβαςRïvas in Greek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rivas in VE Venezuela, MX Mexico, US United States 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

Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Rïvas is found

(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.

Where Rïvas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#21≈170,000 est.≈1 in 1671.3KRivas114
MX Mexico#137≈140,000 est.≈1 in 9382.4KRivas227
US United States#88976,2051 in 4.4K79KRivas450
SV El Salvador#15≈68,000 est.≈1 in 9371KRivas106
ES Spain#9845,7761 in 1.1K46KRivas201
NI Nicaragua#14≈40,000 est.≈1 in 173—Rivas76
PY Paraguay#81≈19,000 est.≈1 in 373—Rivas64
UY Uruguay—7,6601 in 4427.7K—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); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Rïvas under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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,….
Which countries have the most people with the surname Rïvas?
Mondonomo estimates about 170 thousand people named Rïvas in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rivas. After it come Mexico, United States, El Salvador and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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” — ranked 1242nd in Venezuela (asosab). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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