Babajan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Babasynyň jany
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
Babajan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Armenia it is the 37th most common surname.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 240as Բաբայան(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 11Kas Бабаян
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 26Kfew recordsas Babayan
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 Babajan 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 239 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 named Бабаян, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Armenia, est., as Բաբայան
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Бабаян in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan, Babayan in US United States, FR France, TM Turkmenistan and Բաբայան in AM Armenia.
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)Babasynyň jany.
Cited for this meaning 1
- turkmenkultur.com — Türkmen Adam Atlary (Turkmen personal names, Kylyç 1998)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Babajan 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Бабаян | 138 |
| AM Armenia | #37 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 239 | 102 | Բաբայան | 78 |
| US United States | — | 925as Babayan | 1 in 360K | 1.1K | Babayan | 153 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Бабаян | 38 |
| FR France | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 5 | Babayan | 113 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Babayan | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Бабаян | 30 |
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: Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Common Newborn Surnames by Sex, 2025; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hazrat Babajanb. 1806INIndian Sufi
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Babajan a male or female name?
- Babajan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- What does the name Babajan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Babasynyň jany.
- In which country does Babajan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Бабаян in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Babajan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 925 people named Babayan in 2010, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.
- How common is Babajan compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Babajan is the 37th most common surname of 15,931 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/babajanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Babajan” — the 37th most common surname in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.