The Ohanian surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,210 people carried this name — #21,568 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 243,900 people counted. That is up 19% from 1,013 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ohanian surname
From Armenian Օհանյան (Ōhanyan).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ohanian» (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 173 people named Ohanian.
65 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 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 67 people named Ohanian 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.
In the Nordic population registers
28 people named Ohanian is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Ohanian,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mike Connors 1925–2017 · actor -
Armen Ohanian 1887–1976 · actor
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Armen Ohanian 1887–1976 · actor
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Vache Ohanyan 1905–1992 · writer
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Maimu Ohanian 1923–2011 · medical researcher
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Maimu Ohanian 1923–2011 · medical researcher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ohanian.
- Offret 116 · U.S. census
- Oge 422 · U.S. census
- Oger 102 · U.S. census
- Ogier 404 · U.S. census
- Ohana 394 · U.S. census
- Ohanessian 154 · U.S. census
- Ohannessian 254 · U.S. census
- Ohayon 508 · U.S. census
- Ohl 2,016 · U.S. census
- Ohlmann 333 · U.S. census
- Ohmer 755 · U.S. census
- Ojeda 22,045 · U.S. census
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