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Namesplaining: When your name is a question in itself
By Lucine Kasbarian
AGBU magazine
June 2023
Your name is the most basic of all identity markers. Yet how much do you know about the meaning of your Armenian surname? What stories may lie within that name to shed light on your ancestral origins, their status in society, or curiosities about their life and times in the "old country"? How have Armenian immigrants, in times past and present, modified or clung tight to their foreign-sounding names? The following article in AGBU Magazine is your entry point to unpacking the derivations of Armenian names.