Hakobyan (Armenian: Հակոբյան) is an Armenian surname with the meaning "son of Hakob" (Armenian for Jacob). This surname has multitudes of transliterations into Latin alphabet, including Acopian, Acopyan, Agopian, Agopyan, Akobian, Akobyan, Akopyan, Hagopian, Hagopyan and Hakobian. Similar Russified surname: Akopov. Variants: Hakobyants (Armenian: Հակոբյանց) (with similar variations of rendering in Latin alphabet).
The surname may refer to:
Agopian/Agopyan
Krikor Agopian, Lebanese-Canadian painter
Ştefan Agopian, Romanian writer
Akobian/Akobyan
Varuzhan Akobian, American chess Grandmaster
Acopian/Akopian/Akopyan
Sarkis Acopian (1926–2007), inventor, industrialist, environmentalist
Arthur Akopian, Soviet gymnast and coach (also Artur Akopian, Arthur Akopyan, Arthur Akopian )
Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
Arkadi Akopyan, Russian Armenian football player
Armen Akopyan, Ukrainian Armenian football player
Karen Akopyan, Russian Armenian football player
Nelly Akopian-Tamarina, Russian pianist of Armenian descent
Stepan Yegorovich Akopyan, Prime Minister of Armenia (1937)
Andrey Akopyants, Kazakh footballer of Armenian descent
Hakobian/Hakobyan
Hagop Hagopian (guerrilla), Armenian military commander
Hakob Hakobian (painter)
Hakob Hakobian (poet)
Hakob Melik Hakobian, a.k.a. Raffi, Armenian novelist
Hrair Hakobian, businessman (also Hrair Hagopian)
Andranik Hakobyan, Armenian boxer
Ara Hakobyan, Armenian football player
Aram Hakobyan, Armenian football player
Felix Hakobyan, Armenian football player
Hayk Hakobyan, Armenian football player
Hayko (Hayk Hakobyan), singer
Kristine Hakobyan, Armenian football player
Vahe Hakobyan
Taguhi Hagopyan known as Hasmik, Soviet Armenian actress
Hakopian/Hakopyan
Michael Andrew Hakopian a.k.a. Pinchface, drummer
Raffi Hakopian, violinist
Hagobian/Hagobyan
Seta Hagobian, Iraqi Armenian singer
Hagopian/Hagopyan
Richard Hagopian
Harold Hagopian
J. Michael Hagopian
Clara Hagopian, maiden name of the (adopting) mother of Steve Jobs
V. H. Hagopian, professor of Ottoman Turkish and Persian in Anatolia College.
Frances Hagopian, political scientist.
