Given name & surname · also Turkish
Savas
“grandfather, old man”
Savas is a surname from Turkish, ultimately from Aramaic.
Original TurkishSavaş
Meaning & origin
What it means
Savas goes back to Aramaic סבא, meaning “grandfather, old man.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Savas comes from Turkish, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Turkish Savaş, from Greek Σάββας, from Aramaic סבא (“grandfather, old man”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1930. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Savas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 59
- 59 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2008. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 355 as a first name in 2020; 771 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Savas’s family of names
In English usage, Savas as a surname was borrowed from the Turkish form Savaş. In English usage, Savas as a surname was borrowed from the Greek form Σάββας.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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