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

Browse Bashkir names

49 names · page 1 of 3

Abbas
“stern, frowning”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Abdulla
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdullah
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Adilya
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Agidel
“white river”
From Turkic · Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Äðhäm
“shady, darkened much, almost black”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aibek
“moon lord”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aibika
“moon lady”
From Turkic · Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aibolat
“moon + steel”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Aibulat
“moon steel”
From Turkic and Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aidar
“forelock, tuft of hair”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aigiz
“moon wanderer”
From Turkic · Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aigul
“moon flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ainur
“moonlight”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Airat
“wonder, amazement”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Aisylu
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Akbulat
“white steel”
From Turkic and Persian · Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Akhmet
“most praised”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Äkmäl
“most perfect”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Akram
“most generous”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aksylu
“fair beauty”
From Turkic · Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Albert
“noble and bright”
From Germanic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Albina
“white”
From Latin · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ali
“high, exalted”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, 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
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

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.