Narek

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Нарек in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 more and Ნარეკ in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

• Bulgarian given name44 records spelled Narek7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

  Also written Нарек

• Thai given name35 records spelled Narek6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, Russia, United States

  Also written นเรค, นีเร็ค, นิเรค, นเรค์

• Greek given name27 records spelled Narek3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece

  Also written Ναρεκ, Ναρέκ

25 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.

Other recorded senses●

Narek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Basque, ergative indefinite of nare

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nare Gevorgyanb. 1990AMnot in their usual nameArmenian singer
• Narek Setaghyanb. 1990ESSpanish amateur wrestler
• Narek Ghahramanyanb. 1991AMArmenian politician
• Narek Aslanyanb. 1996AMassociation football player
• Narek Grigoryanb. 2001AMArmenian footballer (born 2001)
• Narek Armanactor
• Narek GharibyanUSresearcher

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 131 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Narek?

We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Narek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Narek have the most bearers?

Narek is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled нарек.

How common is Narek compared with other names?

In Russia, Narek is the 691st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Narek a male or female name?

Narek 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.