# Vardan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vardan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 81 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 81 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वरदान (varadāna).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | 13,250 |
| 2008 | 5 | 14,485 |
| 2011 | 7 | 10,715 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,945 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,918 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,580 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,543 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8,246 |
| 2023 | 6 | 12,146 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,847 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,861 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Vardan

- Vardan Mamikonian, Armenian military leader and saint
- Vardan Areveltsi, Armenian scholar
- Vardan Minasyan, Armenian footballer (born 1974)
- Vardan Ghazaryan, Association football player and manager
- Vardan Aigektsi, author, priest and monk
- Vardan Pahlevanyan, Armenian long jumper
- Vardan Petrosyan, actor, scriptwriter, parodist
- Vardan Khachatryan, footballer
- Vardan Stepanyan, Armenian soldier
- Vardan Dadiani, Georgian noble

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.