Nalbandian

surname · Latin script

Meaning: patronymic from Turkish nalbant ‘farrier’, a word of Persian origin

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Nalbandian is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 417K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 74K
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 169K

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 Nalbandian itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

798 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
193 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NalbandianLatin(measured from records)
ნალბანდიანGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

patronymic from Turkish nalbant ‘farrier’, a word of Persian origin.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nalbandian 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 Nalbandian is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—7981 in 417K798Nalbandian193
GE Georgia—318as ნალბანდიან1 in 13K318Nalbandian4
CA Canada—≈170 est.≈1 in 218K—Nalbandian40
FR France—≈150 est.≈1 in 450K19—1
MA Morocco—≈120 est.≈1 in 309K—Nalbandian4
UY Uruguay—461 in 74K46——
LB Lebanon—≈32 est.≈1 in 169K—Nalbandian7
AM Armenia—≈16 est.≈1 in 187K—Nalbandian8
GD Grenada#506———Nalbandian1

798 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nalbandian is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Uruguay, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nalbandián

  • Russian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Налбандян, Nalbandyan, Нальбандян, Налбандиан, Налбаньдян

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nalbandi︠a︡n

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States

    Also written Nalbandián

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Nalbandiàn

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Nalbandian
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010798#29,550
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020746#32,948
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000744#29,815
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—46—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199119—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194118—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198116—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197112—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195112—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nalbandian mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from Turkish nalbant ‘farrier’, a word of Persian origin. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Nalbandian have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 798 people named Nalbandian, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nalbandian.
Where is Nalbandian most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nalbandian is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nalbandian?
In the United States, the national register counted 798 people named Nalbandian in 2010, about 1 in 417 thousand residents.
How common is Nalbandian compared with other names?
In Grenada, Nalbandian is the 506th most common surname of 3,427 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, “Nalbandian” — the 506th most common surname in Grenada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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