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  • Armenian Family names

    hello all.. im new here
    armenians are usually known by their family names, which ends in ian. Most of the armenian families end with ian, what about the ones not ending in ian(includes mine).
    I've heard many stories about that.. one of them is that because they are old armenians, and that the second name of all old armenians doesn't end with ian(that's what ppl told me).another one is that because people having these family names used to work in turkey and have removed the ian so that they aren't distinguished and bad treated.i don't know if any of these is true or not.
    P.S all the families that don't end with ian are armenian catholic.
    Please if u know about it, post replies.. cause i need the real true story.
    Thx

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    Re: Armenian Family names

    Nah I'm YAN...Hakobyan...unlike some people who have Akopian...

    Hey at least they kept the Ian or Yan...thats all that matters to me, unlike many people who change their names...

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      Re: Armenian Family names

      yeah iam minasyan

      i know alot of ppl with turkish names like karabullut and karakis and tepeli that had to convert in turkey. my uncle has 4 different surnames on his passport his surname was artinian

      i dont know why he didnt change it back once he came back to australia

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      • #4
        Re: Armenian Family names

        The ian suffix find its origins to Iran. It is originally Persian, as far as I know. But after the Arab conquest, most Persians lost it, while we Armenians kept the tradition.

        Originally Armenian names ended in uni, like Bagratuni, Artzuni etc.

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        • #5
          Re: Armenian Family names

          Im
          Kassabian...
          regular old ian...

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            Re: Armenian Family names

            Originally posted by Ari
            yeah iam minasyan

            i know alot of ppl with turkish names like karabullut and karakis and tepeli that had to convert in turkey. my uncle has 4 different surnames on his passport his surname was artinian

            i dont know why he didnt change it back once he came back to australia
            my mom is Minassian as well, aren't we relatives?

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            • #7
              Re: Armenian Family names

              Originally posted by ArmenianKid
              Im
              Kassabian...
              regular old ian...
              there is an english band called Kassabian.

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              • #8
                Re: Armenian Family names

                Originally posted by Կարմիր Բ
                The ian suffix find its origins to Iran. It is originally Persian, as far as I know. But after the Arab conquest, most Persians lost it, while we Armenians kept the tradition.

                Originally Armenian names ended in uni, like Bagratuni, Artzuni etc.
                yeah u r right it is persian there r a lot of iranians whose familynames end in ian but most of the time it is distinguishable if the route of the word is persian.(for example, they got mansurian, khodabakhshian, manucherian,... just as we do!

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                • #9
                  Re: Armenian Family names

                  Originally posted by ARK
                  there is an english band called Kassabian.

                  yeah, but they spell it with one "S"

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                  • #10
                    Re: Armenian Family names

                    Originally posted by ArmenianKid
                    yeah, but they spell it with one "S"
                    i forgot to tell u but u might know that kassab in persian means butcher !that's intersting.

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