Names of Armenia AM
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025) records Նարե as the commonest given name in Armenia; the names that most distinguish Armenia from the rest of the world are Sargsyan, Armen and Narek.
Written in Armenian.
- Population
- 3M
- Official registers
- 1
- Name forms recorded
- 1.7K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Armenia
Names in Armenia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.
The most common names in Armenia
| # | Name | Bearers recorded | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Նարե | 578 | — |
| 2 | Լուսե | 507 | — |
| 3 | Արպի | 506 | — |
| 4 | Մարիա | 479 | — |
| 5 | Անգելինա | 427 | — |
| 6 | Ըեվա | 311 | — |
| 7 | Մանե | 304 | 80 |
| 8 | Մարիե | 289 | — |
| 9 | Ամելիե | 285 | — |
| 10 | Մարիամ | 262 | — |
| 11 | Անահիտ | 256 | — |
| 12 | Աննա | 247 | — |
| 13 | Արիանա | 235 | — |
| 14 | Եմիլը | 229 | — |
| 16 | Սարահ | 220 | — |
| 17 | Ադրիանա | 212 | — |
| 18 | Սօփիե | 212 | — |
| 19 | Նանե | 210 | — |
| 20 | Ելլեն | 205 | — |
| 21 | Տատեվ | 192 | — |
Where the two lists disagree
25 of Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.
The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.
Characteristic of Armenia
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Armenia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Armenia are written in Latin (98%) and Armenian (2%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat). Counts: not recorded. given. 50 forms. 2021–2025. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Armstat publishes annual press release PDFs of top ~44 most common newborn names by sex. PDF URLs confirmed working: 2021=armstat.am/file/doc/99530008.pdf, 2022=99537328.pdf, 2023=99547083.pdf, 2024=99558103.pdf, 2025=99568103.pdf. 2021/2025 are text-extractable; 2022/2023 are image-based PDFs requiring OCR. Top-list only (not full name registry). StatBank (statbank.armstat.am) has PX-Web tables but API returns 500 errors. SWEEP 2026-08-06: checked for a live per-name existence oracle. Armenia's e-register.am / e-register.moj.am (legal-entity registry) does support searching by a company founder's name + passport number, but only among registered company founders — not a general population name-existence oracle. Ministry of Justice civil-acts services (moj.am/en/services/civil_registry) are certificate-request services, not a public name-search tool. No Armstat per-name tool found.
Last verified 2026-05-10.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Armenian languageencyclopaedia
- Armenian nameencyclopaedia
- Armeniapedia / FamilySearch & Hala Armenia summaries (via web search)genealogy
- Eastern Armenianencyclopaedia
- Preplyweb
- Western Armenianencyclopaedia
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- What is the most common given name in Armenia?
- Դավիտ, according to Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025), with 1,119 bearers recorded among boys.
- Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Armenia?
- Because they count different people. Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Դավիտ. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Artur. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Armenia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/AM (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Popular Newborn Names.