Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Savvas isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Savvas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 84
- 84 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 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 6 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 286 as a first name in 2020; 164 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.
Savvas’s family of names
Savvas may belong to the same name family as SAVAS. This is a tentative spelling connection.
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.
People named Savvas
- Sabbas the SanctifiedByzantine monk439–532
- Savvas KofidisGreek former footballerborn 1961
- Savvas GentsoglouGreek international footballerborn 1990
- Savvas PoursaitidisGreek footballer and managerborn 1976
- Savvas the New of KalymnosGreek Orthodox saint (1862–1948)
- Savvas ExouzidisGreek footballerborn 1981
- Savvas ConstantinouCypriot footballerborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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