Armenian names and their meanings

Many Armenian names are ordinary words — "sun", "moon", "rose", "star". Know the word and you understand the name.

Names that are words

• Լուսինե (Lusine) — from լուսին, "moon".
• Արփի (Arpi) — a poetic word for "sun, light".
• Աստղիկ (Astghik) — "little star", from աստղ; also an ancient goddess of love.
• Վարդ (Vard) and Վարդուհի — from վարդ, "rose".
• Գոհար (Gohar) — "jewel".

• լուսինlusinmoon
• աստղastghstar
• վարդvardrose
• արևarevsun

Names from history

• Հայկ (Hayk) — the legendary forefather of the Armenians.
• Տիգրան (Tigran) — King Tigranes the Great.
• Անահիտ (Anahit) — an ancient patron goddess.
• Նարեկ (Narek) — after the Narekavank monastery and the poet Grigor Narekatsi.
• Մեսրոպ (Mesrop) — Mesrop Mashtots, creator of the alphabet.

Surnames in -յան

The ending -յան (-yan, -ian) means "of the family of": Պետրոսյան — "of Petros's family". Most Armenian surnames are built this way.

Write your own name

Armenian letters show sounds more precisely than Latin ones: each sound has its own letter. Barik has name pages — your name in big Armenian letters and in handwriting — and in the app a pen writes any name by hand, which you can save as a card.