Howhannes
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hoːhanəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Howhannes is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- AMArmenia≈1 in 143as Հովհաննես(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 27Kas Оганес
- UAUkraine≈1 in 112Kas Оганес
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 Howhannes 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 143 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 named Հովհաննես, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Armenia, est., as Հովհաննես
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hovhannes in US United States, FR France, GE Georgia and 1 more, Оганес in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Հովհաննես 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Howhannes 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 | #26 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 143 | 275 | Հովհաննես | 76 |
| RU Russia | #390 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | #1,155 | Оганес | 127 |
| US United States | — | 536as Hovhannes | 1 in 621K | 536 | Hovhannes | 118 |
| UA Ukraine | #930 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Оганес | 22 |
| FR France | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Hovhannes | 98 |
| GE Georgia | — | 205as ჰოვჰანნეს | 1 in 19K | 205 | Hovhannes | 6 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Hovhannes | 10 |
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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
- Ivan Konstantinovič Ajvazovskijb. 1817UAnot in their usual nameRussian marine painter (1817–1900)
- Hovhannes Hovhannisianb. 1864AMArmenian poet
- Hovhannes Abelianb. 1865AZArmenian actor (1865–1936)
- Hovhannes Katchaznounib. 1868GEArmenian politician (1867-1938)
- Hovhannes Tumanyanb. 1869AMArmenian writer and public activist (1869–1923)
- Hovhannes Shirazb. 1915AMArmenian poet (1915–1984)
- Hovhannes Zardaryanb. 1918AMArmenian painter (1918-1992)
- Hovhannes Davtyanb. 1983AMArmenian judoka
- Hovhannes Goharyanb. 1988AMfootballer
- Hovhannes Bachkovb. 1992AMArmenian boxer
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Howhannes?
- A machine transcription gives /hoːhanəs/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Howhannes a male or female name?
- Howhannes 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 Howhannes have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Հովհաննես in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Howhannes?
- In the United States, the national register counted 536 people named Hovhannes in 2020, about 1 in 621 thousand residents.
- How common is Howhannes compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Howhannes is the 26th most common given name of 7,577 given names 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/howhannesThe 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, “Howhannes” — the 26th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.