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Vartan

Boys' name

From Armenian Վարդան; literal meaning unconfirmed

Vartan has been given to 180 babies in the U.S. since 1927. 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 1988, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Vartan, 2019

1 in 694,000

Vartan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vartan: meaning, origin, and history

From Armenian Վարդան; literal meaning unconfirmed

Armenian

What Vartan means

Vartan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vartan is used in Romanian. Its origins include Armenian.

Vartan comes through Armenian Վարդան.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 180 boys were recorded with the name Vartan between 1927 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,647 in 1948.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Vartan?

Vartan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vartan 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vartan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vartans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vartan was born before 1995 — so the typical Vartan is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (58).

Is Vartan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1988 (10)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,647
1948

Spellings of Vartan

Vartan is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 75.9% against Vartan's 0.04%.

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.

Where Vartan is used

Across 1910–2025, Vartan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 232,436 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vartan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vartan around the world

Where Vartan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1925–2015
    #4,875
    in 2015

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Vartan 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
#3,647
1948
Peak year
1988
10 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
180
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vartan

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

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Sibling names for Vartan

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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