Vartan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɑːtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vartan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Armenian Վարդան (Vardan).
- USUnited States1 in 347K(measured from records)
- AMArmenia≈1 in 162as Վարդան
- RURussia≈1 in 20Kas Вардан
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 Vartan 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
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Վարդան, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lebanon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Вардан in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, CN China and Վարդան 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 Վարդան (Vardan).
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vartan 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 | #29 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 162 | 133 | Վարդան | 93 |
| RU Russia | #386 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | #850 | Вардан | 130 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Вардан | 1 |
| US United States | — | 958 | 1 in 347K | 955 | Vartan | 165 |
| UA Ukraine | #730 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 112K | listed | Вардан | 22 |
| GE Georgia | #567 | 322as ვარდან | 1 in 12K | 322 | Vartan | 12 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Vartan | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 32 | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | — |
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); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Vartan Makhokhianb. 1869USArmenian painter (1869–1937)
- Vartan Gregorianb. 1934IRAmerican academic administrator
- Eileen Barkerb. 1938GBnot in their usual nameBritish professor of sociology (born 1938)
- Vartan Malakianb. 1947USAmerican choreographer and painter
- Vartan Militosyanb. 1950AMSoviet weightlifter
- Vartan Oskanianb. 1955AMArmenian politician
- Vartan Vahramianb. 1955IRIranian painter
- Vartan Adjemianb. 1956AMcomposer
- Vartan Kagramanianzb. 1966chess player
- Varante Soudjianb. 1978FRnot in their usual nameFrench film director
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 38 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 212 | #92,936 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 187 | #97,210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Vartan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Armenian Վարդան (Vardan). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Vartan?
- A machine transcription gives /vɑːtən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Vartan a male or female name?
- Vartan 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.
- What are other forms of the name Vartan?
- In the etymology graph, Vardan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Vartan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Վարդան in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vartan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 958 people named Vartan in 2020, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
- How common is Vartan compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Vartan is the 29th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vartan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vartanThe 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, “Vartan” — the 29th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.