Hovsepyan
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/həvˈsipiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hovsepyan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Armenia than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Armenian Հովսեփյան (Hovsepʿyan).
- AMArmenia≈1 in 162as Հովսեփյան(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 17Kas Овсепян
- UAUkraine≈1 in 76Kas Овсепян
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hovsepyan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Armenia (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 292K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Հովսեփյան, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Овсепян in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Հովսեփյան in AM Armenia and Ovsepian in GE Georgia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Armenian Հովսեփյան (Hovsepʿyan).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hovsepyan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AM Armenia | #31 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 162 | 126 | Հովսեփյան | 70 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Овсепян | 128 |
| US United States | — | 1,060as Hovsepian | 1 in 314K | 1.2K | Hovsepyan | 121 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Овсепян | 33 |
| GE Georgia | — | 329as ოვსეპიან | 1 in 12K | 329 | Ovsepian | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 171 | 1 in 292K | 171 | Hovsepyan | 13 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Овсепян | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Common Newborn Surnames by Sex, 2025; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hovsepyan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Armenian, equivalent to English Josephson.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 464 | #49,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 171 | #18,609 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 171 | #18,538 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hovsepyan mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Armenian Հովսեփյան (Hovsepʿyan). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Hovsepyan?
- A machine transcription gives /həvˈsipiən/ (IPA) for Armenian.
- In which country does Hovsepyan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Հովսեփյան in Armenia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hovsepyan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hovsepyan is densest in Spain — about 1 in 292 thousand people — even though Armenia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hovsepyan?
- In Spain, the national register counted 171 people named Hovsepyan, about 1 in 292 thousand residents.
- How common is Hovsepyan compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Hovsepyan is the 31st most common surname of 15,931 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hovsepyanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hovsepyan” — the 31st most common surname in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.