Sargis

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sarkis in US United States, GE Georgia, BR Brazil and 18 more.

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 9 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◐

Sargis is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name738 records spelled Sargis32 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

  Also written Саркис, Саргис, Саркіс, Саргіс, Sarkis

39 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●

Sargis 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 Latin, dative/ablative plural of sargus

  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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 12 years between 2009–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sarkis Balyanb. 1835TRnot in their usual nameOttoman Armenian architect and sculptor (1835-1899)
• Sarkis Diranianb. 1859FRnot in their usual nameArmenian Ottoman painter (1859-1938)
• Sarkis Jebejianb. 1864TRnot in their usual nameArmenian military leader
• Sargis Mehrabyanb. 1870AZArmenian fedayee
• Sargis Lukashinb. 1883RUArmenian politician and revolutionary (1883-1937)
• Sergei Parajanovb. 1924GEnot in their usual nameSoviet Armenian and Georgian film director (1924-1990)
• Sarkis Hatspanianb. 1962TRnot in their usual nameTurkish politician of Armenian ancestry (1962–2018)
• Sargis Karapetyanb. 1963AMArmenian association football player (born 1963)
• Sargis Galstyanb. 1979AMArmenian actor and director
• Sargis Adamyanb. 1993AMArmenian-German footballer

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 · 66 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sargis?

We estimate roughly 2.9 thousand people bear Sargis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Sargis have the most bearers?

Sargis is most frequently recorded in Armenia, where it is most often spelled sargis.

How common is Sargis compared with other names?

In Armenia, Sargis is the 22nd most common given name of 3,604 given names recorded there.

Is Sargis a male or female name?

Sargis 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.