lolol goyag.... umm im not 100% sure why it ends in ian or yan.. but my guess is to recognize who is armenian... and as some people know there was an Armenian Genocide in 1915, which almost wiped out the Armenian population by the Turkish community... and They forced Armenians to change their last names. Thats why there are some Armenians out there which dont end in ian, just liek me, my last name used to be Oksun... now it is Minasian... my father changed it back to ian because he wanted to represent his real home land... just a lil info about how i see everything...