Language guide

Bashkir Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Bashkir names are recorded in Bashkir Cyrillic. Each name page shows whether its meaning is documented by a cited source or comes from our editorial research.

Башҡорт теле

Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 67
Scripts in our data: Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1: ba

Browse Bashkir names

67 names · page 1 of 3

Abbas
“stern, frowning”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Abdullah
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Äðhäm
“shady, darkened much, almost black”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aibolat
“moon + steel”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ali
“high, exalted”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Almas
“diamond”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Arif
“knowing”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ayðar
“forelock, topknot”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Aygul
“moon + flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aynur
“moon + light”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aysuluu
“moon + beautiful”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aytuğan
“moon + relative, kin”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Aziz
“powerful, mighty; dear, precious”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Banu
“lady”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Cəmil
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Delbär
“love, beloved”
From Persian · Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Emir
“prince, commander; leader or ruler”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Fərid
“alone, single”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ğarifulla
“the Knower of God”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Gäwhär
“diamond”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ğirfan
“knowledge”
From Arabic · Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Gözäl
“beautiful”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hasan
“good; handsome, beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Həbib
“beloved”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

How Bashkir names are written

Bashkir Cyrillic took its current form in 1938 and adds letters such as ҙ, ҫ, ҡ, ғ, ң, ә, ө and ү. Before the mid-19th century Bashkir speakers wrote in Arabic script.

Where Bashkir names come from

A name used in Bashkir is not automatically Bashkir in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Bashkir names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
51
Bashkir
13
Persian
13
Turkic
7
Hebrew
4
Greek
2
European
1

Counted from 67 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Bashkir names by meaning

Bashkir belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, together with Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tatar. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Turkish · Uyghur · Uzbek · Azerbaijani · Turkmen

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Bashkir alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377619865. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.