The Kevorkian surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 681 people carried this name — #33,499 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 8% from 628 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Kevorkian surname
A variant of Gevorgyan, from Armenian Գևորգյան (Geworgyan).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kevorkian» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 167 people named Kevorkian.
74 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 125 people named Kevorkian live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Kevorkian,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mihran H. Kevorkian 1873–1946 · artist -
Hagop Kevorkian 1880–1962 · art collector
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Vahram Kevorkian 1887–1911 · association football player
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Arthur George Kevorkian 1905– · botanist
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Jack Kevorkian 1928–2011 · composer
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Raymond Kévorkian 1953– · historian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kevorkian.
- Kesteloot 246 · U.S. census
- Kestler 1,030 · U.S. census
- Ketels 151 · U.S. census
- Ketterer 2,620 · U.S. census
- Kettler 3,424 · U.S. census
- Keusch 320 · U.S. census
- Keyser 7,978 · U.S. census
- Khaled 731 · U.S. census
- Khalid 3,046 · U.S. census
- Khalifa 999 · U.S. census
- Khalil 6,983 · U.S. census
- Khan 76,171 · U.S. census
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