Vartan — boys' name
180 babies named Vartan in U.S. Social Security records since 1927, with the highest year being 1988. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Vartan was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Vartan in 1988 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Vartan
The Social Security Administration has registered 180 babies named Vartan between 1927 and 2019, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Vartan currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Vartan performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Vartan shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 75 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Vartan in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Vartan in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 180 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Vartan at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Vartan popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1927
- Peak year (1988)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 93 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
180 total births across 93 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1988 with 10 births in a single year.
Vartan by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 58 births that decade — 32% of Vartan's all-time total
Vartan decade highlights
- Peak decade 58 births
- Runner-up 36 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Vartan's strongest decade
58 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Vartan by state
Where Vartan concentrates geographically — total births since 1927
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 75 | 41.7% |
75 of 180 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 41.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 41.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1927–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.