Arakelyan

surname · Latin script

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

Arakelyan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Armenian Առաքելյան (Aṙakʿelyan).

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 248K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 517K
  • AMArmenia≈1 in 108as Առաքելյան

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 Arakelyan 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.

Armenia (inferred from the name graph)

≈28,000 named Առաքելյան, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ArakelyanLatin(measured from records)
ԱռաքելյանArmenian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Առաքելյան 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)

Borrowed from Armenian Առաքելյան (Aṙakʿelyan).

Sources 1

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arakelyan 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 Arakelyan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AM Armenia#19≈28,000 est.≈1 in 108176Առաքելյան89
US United States—6431 in 517K899Arakelyan157
RU Russia—≈400 est.≈1 in 358K—Arakelyan68
FR France—≈270 est.≈1 in 248K—Arakelyan98
ES Spain—2431 in 206K243Arakelyan28
SE Sweden—471 in 217K47Arakelyan6
FI Finland—261 in 214K26—3
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234K6—2

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)

Arakelyan is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Аракелян, Аракельян, Arakelian, Аракелиан, Arakeljan

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Аракелян, Arakelяn

28 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

198019902000Lusine Arakelyan, b. 1982Tigran Arakelyan, b. 1987Serj Arakelyan, b. 1995Aram Arakelyan, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Arakelyan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020899#28,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010643#35,057
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000340#56,246
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—243#14,283
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—243#14,231
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—47#13,221
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—26#39,777
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Arakelyan mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Armenian Առաքելյան (Aṙakʿelyan). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Arakelyan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Առաքելյան in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Arakelyan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arakelyan is densest in Spain — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though Armenia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Arakelyan?
In the United States, the national register counted 643 people named Arakelyan in 2010, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
How common is Arakelyan compared with other names?
In Armenia, Arakelyan is the 19th most common surname of 15,931 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, “Arakelyan” — the 19th most common surname in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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