Vardanyan

surname · Latin script

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

/vɑɹdəniən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Vardanyan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 108K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 392K
  • AMArmenia≈1 in 64as Վարդանյան

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 Vardanyan 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)

≈47,000 named Վարդանյան, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VardanyanLatin(measured from records)
ВарданянCyrillic(measured from records)
ՎարդանյանArmenian(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Варданян in RU Russia, UA Ukraine and Վարդանյան 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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vardanyan 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 Vardanyan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AM Armenia#8≈47,000 est.≈1 in 64292Վարդանյան92
RU Russia—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 8.3K—Варданян141
UA Ukraine—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 41K—Варданян23
US United States—8491 in 392K1.3KVardanyan161
FR France—≈630 est.≈1 in 108K—Vardanyan136
SE Sweden—991 in 103K99Vardanyan14

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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Vardanyan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Vardanyañ

  • Bulgarian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Варданян, Vardanяn

  • Georgian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written Vardaniani, ვარდანიანი

26 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)

1940196019802000Hrant Vardanyan, b. 1949Alla Vardanyan, b. 1959Artak Vardanyan, b. 1966Elena Vardanyan, b. 1984Greta Vardanyan, b. 1986Sharur Wardanjan, b. 1988Parg, b. 1996

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)

FormalՀարգելի պարոն Vardanyan,Dear Mr Vardanyan, (English)
InformalԲարև Vardanyan,Hi Vardanyan, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Vardanyan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.3K#19,974
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010849#28,176
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000470#43,290
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—99#7,290
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname 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

How do you pronounce Vardanyan?
A machine transcription gives /vɑɹdəniən/ (IPA) for Armenian.
In which country does Vardanyan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 47 thousand people named Վարդանյան in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vardanyan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vardanyan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 103 thousand people — even though Armenia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vardanyan?
In the United States, the national register counted 849 people named Vardanyan in 2010, about 1 in 392 thousand residents.
How common is Vardanyan compared with other names?
In Armenia, Vardanyan is the 8th 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, “Vardanyan” — the 8th most common surname in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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