Zaven

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Zaven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 448K(measured from records)
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 338K
  • CACanada≈1 in 362K

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 Zaven 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)

742 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 338K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZavenLatin(measured from records)
ზავენGeorgian(measured from records)

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 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zaven 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 Zaven is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7421 in 448K725Zaven163
FR France≈120 est.≈1 in 591K240—1
CA Canada≈100 est.≈1 in 362K1Zaven28
GE Georgia100as ზავენ1 in 40K100Zaven5
IT Italy≈78 est.≈1 in 798K—Zaven2
BE Belgium≈27 est.≈1 in 436K—Zaven6
LB Lebanon≈16 est.≈1 in 338K—Zaven3

742 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zaven is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Armenian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia, Canada

    Also written Զավեն

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada, Belgium

    Also written Zavén

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, China

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Завен, Завэн

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Zāven

29 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)

190019502000Zaven Vardanyan, b. 1907Zaven Bakhshinyan, b. 1908Zaven Biberyan, b. 1921Zaven Vardanyan, b. 1945Zaven Abrahamyan, b. 1948Zaven Almazyan, b. 1950Zaven Haroutunian, b. 1957Zaven Kouyoumdjian, b. 1970Zaven Andriasian, b. 1989Zaven Badoyan, b. 1989

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)

InformalHi Zaven,

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 22 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Zaven
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020725#15,496
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024240#2,199
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202529—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200929—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202424—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201224—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202323—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201423—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201922—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201622—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201122—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200420—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

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

Is Zaven a male or female name?
Zaven 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.
How do you pronounce Zaven?
A machine transcription gives /zəvən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zaven have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 742 people named Zaven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zaven.
How common is the name Zaven?
In the United States, the national register counted 742 people named Zaven in 2020, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.

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The 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, “Zaven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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