Tigran

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Тигран in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 5 more, Dikran in SY Syria, AU Australia, Тігран in UA Ukraine and Ტიგრან 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●

Attested across 5 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◐

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

• Greek given name29 records spelled Tigran4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece

  Also written Tigkran, Τιγκραν, Τιγραν

34 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●

Tigran 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 Esperanto, accusative singular of tigra

  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) — 33 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●

• Tigranes IIb. 140AMnot in their usual nameking of Armenia
• Dikran Tchouhadjianb. 1837TRnot in their usual nameOttoman Armenian composer, conductor, and writer (1837–1898)
• Tigran Petrosianb. 1929GESoviet Armenian Grandmaster and World Chess Champion
• Tigran Mansurianb. 1939AMArmenian composer
• Tigran Sargsyanb. 1960AMArmenian economist and politician
• Tigran Keosayanb. 1966RURussian film director, actor, and television presenter (1966–2025)
• Tigran Yesayanb. 1972AMArmenian footballer (born 1972)
• Tigran Hamasyanb. 1987AMArmenian musician
• Tigran Gevorg Martirosyanb. 1988AMweightlifter
• Tigran Barseghyanb. 1993AMArmenian football player

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 · 125 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Tigran?

We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Tigran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Tigran have the most bearers?

Tigran is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled тигран.

How common is Tigran compared with other names?

In Russia, Tigran is the 313th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Tigran a male or female name?

Tigran 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 does the name Tigran mean?

Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Armenian Տիգրան (Tigran).