Just Romanian form of Dracula. I remember reading "drac" meant evil or devil, but I'm no expert on that.
You've got to remember that the character is just that - a fictional character and the movie is a modern interpretation of Bram Stoker's work and has been heavily embellished. Also, it's just an assumption that Count Dracula was partly based on Vlad the Impaler. My best guess, from everything I've read, is that Stoker just took the name and nothing more. He didn't know enough history or Vlad. Besides, vampires come from folklore and he simply made it into a timeless story.
So, with all that in mind, the movie of course focuses on Vlad aspect at the beginning, so there's a huge amount of poetic license taken with not only history, but the novel too.
Like I said earlier - I worked it out from the spacing of the "DR" at the start and the "EA" at the end. I then later found a behind-the-scenes photo in my collection that shows the table without the cloth. When I have time, I'll dig it out a post it here.
