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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
346
Scripts in our data
Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1
ba

Browse Bashkir names

7 names

  • Lala

    “tulip”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Latifa

    “gentle, delicate”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Leila

    “night”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Leyla

    “night (via the Semitic source of the name)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Leysan

    “first spring rain”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Liliya

    “lily”
    From Latin · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Lutfiya

    “kind, gracious”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

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
    244
  • Persian
    63
  • Turkic
    53
  • Bashkir
    13
  • Hebrew
    12
  • Latin
    5
  • Greek
    4

Counted from 346 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 · Tajik

References for this page

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