Garajalar was a village in the Echmiadzin uezd of the former Iravan governorate, later in the former Uchkilsa (Echmiadzin, Vagharshapat) district, and present-day Armavir province. The village was marked on the five-verst map of the Caucasus. Another name for the village was “Mammadabad”.

The village was solely inhabited by Azerbaijanis: 34 in 1873, 33 in 1886, 49 in 1897, 72 in 1904 and 121 Azerbaijanis in 1914. The Azerbaijanis were attacked, massacred or ousted from the village by Armenian armed units in 1918. After the establishment of Soviet power in present-day Armenia, the Azerbaijanis managed to return to their village. The village was inhabited only by 18 Azerbaijanis in 1931. The village was abolished after the Azerbaijani population of the village had been deported to Azerbaijan in accordance with the decision of the USSR Council of Ministers “On the resettlement of collective farmers and other Azerbaijani population from the Armenian SSR to the Kur-Araz lowlands of the Azerbaijan SSR” dated 23 December 1947. At present, it lies in ruins.

The toponym was coined on the basis of the name of the Turkic Garajalar tribe.