Names of Armenia AM

Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Common Newborn Surnames by Sex, Armenian script, 2012-2021 + 2024 records Սարգսյան as the commonest surname in Armenia; the names that most distinguish Armenia from the rest of the world are Գրիգորյան, Հարությունյան and Հովհաննիսյան.

Written in Armenian.

Population
3M
Official registers
4
Name forms recorded
2.1K
ABuilt from 4 official registers (2023), 2,111 name forms in our corpus, 6 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

How names work in Armenia

Names in Armenia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Armenia

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023, 2023 — 50 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Նարե747—
2Արփի616—
3Մարիա522—
4Լյուսի401—
5Մանե369—
6Մարի365—
7Եվա362—
8Լուսե360—
9Անգելինա325—
10Աննա320—
11Անահիտ3001
12Էլեն298100
13Մարիամ291—
14Արիանա286—
15Անի27814
16Նանե268—
17Էմիլի255—
18Միլա255—
19Սոֆի236—
20Էվա232—

Where the two lists disagree

24 of Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023 2023Across all recordsնարե: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. նարեnot rankedարփի: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. արփիnot rankedմարիա: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. մարիաnot rankedլյուսի: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. լյուսիnot rankedմանե: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. մանեnot rankedմարի: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. մարիnot rankedեվա: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. եվաnot rankedլուսե: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. լուսեnot rankedանգելինա: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. անգելինաnot rankedաննա: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. աննաnot rankedանահիտ: 11 → 1 · ranks higher across all records11. անահիտ1էլեն: 12 → 100 · ranks lower across all records12. էլեն100մարիամ: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. մարիամnot rankedարիանա: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. արիանաnot rankedանի: 15 → 1415. անի14նանե: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. նանեnot rankedէմիլի: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. էմիլիnot rankedմիլա: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. միլաnot rankedսոֆի: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. սոֆիnot rankedէվա: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. էվաnot rankedամելի: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. ամելիnot rankedգայանե: 22 → 6 · ranks higher across all records22. գայանե6սառա: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. սառաnot rankedմիլենա: 24 → 103 · ranks lower across all records24. միլենա103ադրիանա: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. ադրիանաnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023, 2023 on the left; every record we hold for Armenia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Armenia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Armenia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

ԱնահիտԱրմենԱրթուրԿարենԳայանեԿարինեՀասմիկՍարգսիԱնիՍուսաննաԼուսինեԱրմինեՆարինեԼիլիթԳոհարՍամվելՄարինեԱրամիՀայկԱշոտ
Sized by how much of the difference between Armenia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Over time

ՆարեՄանեՄիլենաՄարիԱնի20082023967
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023, 2008–2023 (14 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Names in Armenia are written in Armenian (98%) and Latin (2%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Գրիգորյանsurname(measured from records)Grigoryan
Սարգսյանsurname(measured from records)Sargsyan
Հարությունյանsurname(measured from records)Harutyunyan
Հովհաննիսյանsurname(measured from records)Hovhannisyan
Հակոբյանsurname(measured from records)Hakobyan
The best-attested names in Armenia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Armenia?
Նարե, according to Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023 (2023), with 747 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Armenia?
Սարգսյան, according to Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Common Newborn Surnames by Sex, Armenian script, 2012-2021 + 2024 (2024), with 486 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Armenia?
Because they count different people. Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023 (2023) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Նարե. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Անահիտ. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Armenia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/AM (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Common Newborn Surnames by Sex, Armenian script, 2012-2021 + 2024.