Shakarian

English

Etymology 1

Variant of Shakaryan.

Proper noun

Shakarian (plural Shakarians)

A surname from Armenian.

Statistics

According to the 2010 United States Census, Shakarian is the 134712^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 125 individuals. Shakarian is most common among White (93.6%) individuals.

Further reading

Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shakarian”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

Blend of Shepard +‎ Vakarian.

Proper noun

Shakarian (uncountable)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Commander Shepard and Garrus Vakarian from the video game series Mass Effect.
- 2012 August 23, Jamie Summers (@darksakura), Twitter‎:
  There's not enough Shakarian on my dashboard right now. This is my Shepard and her Garrus. Don't judge me.
- 2015 July 31, Sam Maggs (@SamMaggs), Twitter‎:
  UGH my whole Tumblr dash now is just Royai and Shakarian and [modified .gif of No Face from the animated film Spirited Away being knocked over by a wave labelled "feels"]
- 2021 April 29, Kat Vakarian-Rutherford (@ShepardsKat), Twitter‎:
  Found some new Shakarian fic, you won’t hear from me tonight 😂
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shakarian.

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