About armenian names
Nearly every surname here closes on ian or yan, as in "Ghougas Kalousdian" and "Garo Ohanyan", the patronymic ending that makes Armenian names recognizable worldwide. The spelling split between "Martirosyan" and "Kalousdian" is meaningful too, since yan leans Eastern Armenian and ian marks the diaspora. Choose accordingly when writing characters from Yerevan versus Beirut or Los Angeles.
How armenian names are built
Armenian full names combine a gender-tagged given name with a shared surname pool: 406 male and 334 female first names paired with 370 family names. Each result is a given plus surname pair, as in Ghougas Kalousdian and Loris Martirosyan for men and Khosrovanoush Sevhonkian and Takoush Dadashian for women.
Ghougas Kalousdian
Ghougas + Kalousdian
male given name plus surname
Khosrovanoush Sevhonkian
Khosrovanoush + Sevhonkian
female given name plus surname
Loris Martirosyan
Loris + Martirosyan
male given name plus a -yan surname
Naming notes
Two templates run over three banks: male given plus surname, and female given plus surname, with the 370-entry surname bank shared. Many surnames in the pool end in -ian or -yan (Kalousdian, Martirosyan, Sevhonkian), and both spellings appear side by side. The given banks are larger than the surname pool, so surnames recur sooner across a long list.
Questions about armenian names
- How is an Armenian name assembled here?
- A gender-tagged given name plus a surname. Males draw from a 406-entry bank, females from a 334-entry bank, and both share a 370-entry surname pool.
- Why do some surnames end -ian and others -yan?
- Both spellings are stored in the surname bank, so the pool holds Kalousdian alongside Martirosyan and the generator can return either ending.
- Does the surname depend on gender?
- No. The 370-entry surname bank is shared, so a family name attaches to either given bank; the gender is carried by the first name.