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.
- Published names
- 346
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Cyrillic
- ISO 639-1
- ba
Browse Bashkir names
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- “just, fair”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “white river”From Turkic · BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “moon lady”From Turkic · BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “moon flower”From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “moonlight”From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirUnisex2 syllablesEditorial
- “beautiful as the moon”From Turkic · Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “fair beauty”From Turkic · BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “white”From Latin · Turkish, Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “exalted, noble”From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “rosy, pink-cheeked”From Turkic · Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “gold + moon”From Proto-Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, BashkirGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “trustworthy, safe”From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “princess”From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “friendly companion”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “lofty, eminent”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “moon + flower”From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, BashkirGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “moon + beautiful”From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, BashkirGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “azalea (flower)”From Greek · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesEditorial
- “like the full moon”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “lady”From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, BashkirGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “wife of the nobleman + light, shine”From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “love, beloved”From Persian · BashkirGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “divine”From Latin · Kazakh, Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “charming, beloved”From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, BashkirGirl2 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):
- Arabic244
- Persian63
- Turkic53
- Bashkir13
- Hebrew12
- Latin5
- Greek4
Counted from 346 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Bashkir names by meaning
Explore related languages
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 · Tajik
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.

