This family uses the Persian/Iranian first name Zohrab as its surname, but it is an Armenian family, being part of the Manuchariants (Mangkasar) clan, which provided meliks (dukes) for the Erevan area of the Armenian part of the Persian Empire. There is a Parsee family in India with the same surname, so one branch of the Armenian Zohrabs who settled in India changed their surname to Zorab, so as not to be confused with the Parsee family. At least one branch of the family left Iran around 1795, in order to escape a politically-motivated massacre of the Zohrab family then being carried out by the Shah of Persia (Iran). One branch of the Zohrab family uses Manuk as a surname.