Sarafyan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarafyan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Armenian Սարաֆյան (Sarafyan).
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- AMArmenia≈1 in 14Kas Սարաֆյան
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646Kas Sarafian
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 Sarafyan 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
410 named Sarafian, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Սարաֆյան 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)
- ArmenianՍարաֆյանSarafyan(measured from records)
- Arabicصَرَّافṣarrāf“moneychanger”(inferred from the name graph)via Սարաֆյան
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
From Armenian Սարաֆյան (Sarafyan).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarafyan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 410as Sarafian | 1 in 811K | 410 | Sarafyan | 45 |
| AM Armenia | #773 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Սարաֆյան | 12 |
| AR Argentina | — | 46as Sarafian | 1 in 989K | 46 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Sarafyan | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 20as Sarafian | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 14as Sarafian | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 13as Sarafian | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
410 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling sarafian. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarafyan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Armenian Սարաֆյան (Sarafyan). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sarafyan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 410 people named Sarafian, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sarafyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 410 people named Sarafian in 2010, about 1 in 811 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarafyan compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Sarafyan is the 773rd 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/sarafyanThe 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, “Sarafyan” — the 773rd most common surname in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.