Hayk
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/haɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hayk is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Armenian Հայկ (Hayk).
- FRFrance≈1 in 211K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 367K
- AMArmenia≈1 in 145as Հայկ
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 Hayk 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 71K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 named Հայկ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Гайк in RU Russia, CN China and Հայկ 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)
From Armenian Հայկ (Hayk).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hayk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM Armenia | #22 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 145 | 602 | Հայկ | 107 |
| RU Russia | #730 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | #2,078 | Гайк | 113 |
| US United States | — | 906 | 1 in 367K | 900 | Hayk | 161 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Гайк | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 211K | 1 | Hayk | 100 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 5 | Hayk | 17 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 148K | 8 | Hayk | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 8 | — | 3 |
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 Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hayk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The legendary patriarch and founder of the Armenian nation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hayk Bzhishkyanb. 1887IRSoviet general (1887-1937)
- Hayk Ovsepyanb. 1891TRpolitician (1891–1937)
- Hayk Ghazaryanb. 1930AMArmenian historian (1930-2014)
- Hayk Kotanjianb. 1945AMArmenian writer
- Hayk Nikoghosyanb. 1955AMArmenian politician; public health expert with the World Health Organization
- Haykob. 1973AMnot in their usual nameArmenian singer (1973–2021)
- Hayk Chobanyanb. 1973AMArmenian politician
- Hayk Demoyanb. 1975AMArmenian academic
- Hayk Marutyanb. 1976AMArmenian actor, Mayor of Yerevan
- Hayk Melikyanb. 1980AMArmenian classical pianist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 900 | #13,361 |
| AM Armenia | Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names | 2025 | 603 | #3 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 28 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 16 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Hayk mean, and where does it come from?
- From Armenian Հայկ (Hayk). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Hayk?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪk/ (IPA) for Armenian.
- Is Hayk a male or female name?
- Hayk is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hayk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Հայկ in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hayk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 906 people named Hayk in 2020, about 1 in 367 thousand residents.
- How common is Hayk compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Hayk is the 22nd most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hayk?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haykThe 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, “Hayk” — the 22nd most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.