Vahagn

Boys' name

Transliteration of Վահագն

Vahagn has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2015. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Vahagn, 2015

1 in 740,000

Vahagn over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vahagn: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Վահագն

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vahagn means

Vahagn is a transliteration of Վահագն.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Armenian Վահագն (Vahagn). Doublet of Verethragna.

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Origin, language, and formation

Vahagn is used in English.

Vahagn comes through Armenian Վահագն.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Վահագն.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Vahagn is pronounced /vəˈhɑ(ː).ɡən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Vahagn between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #13,905 in 2015.

How common is Vahagn?

Vahagn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vahagn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vahagn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vahagns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vahagn was born before 2015 — so the typical Vahagn is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Vahagn rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (5)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,905
2015

Spellings of Vahagn

Vahagn is not the most common spelling — Vihaan is, with 61.7% against Vahagn's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Vahagn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,905
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vahagn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Vahagn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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