Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2019. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arshak through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 239 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arshak’s family of names
In English usage, Arshak was borrowed from the Armenian form Արշակ.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arshak
- Arshak II4th Century Armenian king
- Arshag ChobanianArmenian writer (1872–1954)
- Arshak IIIking of Armenia
- Arshak FetvadjianArmenian artist (1866-1947)
- Arshak PetrosianArmenian chess playerborn 1953
- Arshak KoryanRussian-Armenian association football playerborn 1995
- Arshak MakichyanArmenian climate activist and violinist (b. 1994)
- Arshak Ter-GukasovRussian Army commander (1819–1881)
- Arshak PoladianArmenian diplomatborn 1948
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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