Family Tree: Alexander Babayants

Alexander - From Greek name Alexanderos wich was changed into Aghexandr due to sound alter ( l > gh). Now we use European Alexander, especially Russian Alexandr forms. It consists of Greek words alexeo and andros which means ''defender of people'' . In Armenian this name has the following forms: Alexan, Alexianos, Aleck, Sandro, even Sasha(Russian). The form Aghexandr is older, the new form Alexandr is now used.
Babayan - patronymic from Persian bābā 'father'.