Armenian Family names

[UrMistake]

Re: Armenian Family names

My Father name is Hambardzumyan my mothers Nalbandzyan.Eny relative that may u know?My Father side is origin from Van and my Mother from Koxp.
Can u track where is Koxp ?i cant find it in the maps.That come that my GrandGrandFather servaved during Vans resistans,but my mothErs side where in bad luck cuse my grandgradnfather where a whealty man merchant i think he had people working under him, at the genocide my grand father gived them the name Nalbanzyan,he hade camels and so he where somthing like ruler or mayor of his community,so during the turk came he came home to take his wife(very beutiful woman said)he give his son to his brother to take care, so he save his wife and then come fast to leave, at port ,he never came so his brother get in the boat and left with the only son and a presius stone,his brother that envy his brothers wealth wonthed to keep the money for him self so he gived the only son at the orfany later he founded in orfany in armenia,the brither gone russia where he live a wheathy life,whene the kid got 18 he tracked his unkel and traveled hapily to see his only relatives,whel whene he found him they make him clear that no money of his father where used bay him and thay own nothing that my grandafather had to poses(presuce stone).he didnt wont eny money so he worked there and lived in there house where they trithed him like a servand.finaly he andertsand that they didnt wonted him with them so he left fot armenia. There he make family and borned my grandfather Moris Nalbandzyan ,he worked at the secret weapon factoy as a master at weapon making .he daid from cancer 2007.Hes my mentor and i like to find my relaives in russia only to say that all are forgiven.

[ArmSurvival]

Re: Armenian Family names

Hakobyan (yakup) - could be: Jacob

You're right, Hakobyan just comes from the Armenian version of Jacob, Hakob or Hagop. It is not Turkish.

Ichkhanian (ic khan) - khan of the inner region

I think it is just the Turkified version of the Armenian name Ishkhanian.

Re: Armenian Family names

Hello everyone.

Just reading through this thread, it seemed a good idea if I could provide a little input re the family names that have come up so far. Here are the Turkish versions of the names, without the -ian/-yan, with translations:

Kassabian (kasap) - butcher
Demirchian (demirci) - iron worker/blacksmith
Hakobyan (yakup) - could be: Jacob
Bilemjian (bilemci) - knife-grinder
Khelagarian (kel aga) - bald squire
Musaelian (musa eli) - Moses' hand
Ichkhanian (ic khan) - khan of the inner region

Occupations and personal names are usually easy to identify, but some of the others I'm afraid I couldn't even hazard a guess at. Hope this helps.

[Mos]

Re: Armenian Family names

You can also trace you familiy origins with you last name. For example, if you last name ends in "lian" then that means your ancestors came from Turkey.

I am -lian as well.

"Musa" in Arabic means "Moses" (my first name is acutally Movses).

[Artandsky]

Re: Armenian Family names

Hi
My forefathers lived in Georgia for couple of centuries. My great grandpa changed his name for some reason from Panians to Paniev. (I could read his original name on old photo pictures from 19 century)
My brother managed change again to original few years ago.
By the way can anyone tell me what in core my family name mean? I don’t think Pani really mean anything in Armenian?

[Էլիա]

Re: Armenian Family names

Interesting explanation! Does anyone know what Bilemjian (Պիլեմճեան) means or represents?

[Crissy]

Re: Armenian Family names

I guess some Armenian names were shortened at some time or another depending on where they lived, reasons would vary.

Like I said before, my last name was Pour-Hartun or Harutun not sure when my grandfather lived in Iran and that was changed so he couldn't get captured as he was a Fidayeen.
thats the short of it anyway.

[semi]

Re: Armenian Family names

Guys, back to the topic. Why few armenian family names don't end with ian ?

[ARK]

Re: Armenian Family names

Silly me...for some reason I thought you were Australian...I recently started working on my Family Tree but haven't gone as far as 400 years yet, and don't think I will... I have no info on my grandfather's ancestor so I'm pretty much stuck...all I know is that he fled Armenia in 1916 and came to Brazil and that's it...so I don't really think we are related...

we don't seem to be related but we still might be, who knowes! anyway all armenians are related to each other in a way.
Unfortunately we are spread all over the word, recentely i heard even in Ethiopia there are some armenians!

[Jen]

Re: Armenian Family names

Actually my ancestors left western Armenia 400 years ago for Iran and then some of them left Iran for the states and other countries and some stayed.
But since my mom is putting up every Minassian u r surely welcome!

Silly me...for some reason I thought you were Australian...I recently started working on my Family Tree but haven't gone as far as 400 years yet, and don't think I will... I have no info on my grandfather's ancestor so I'm pretty much stuck...all I know is that he fled Armenia in 1916 and came to Brazil and that's it...so I don't really think we are related...