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

32 names · page 1 of 2

Madina
“city”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mahbuba
“beloved”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mahfuza
“protected, guarded”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mahmud
“praised”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mahmut
“praised, praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mäjit
“glorious”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Maksud
“desired, aim”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Malik
“king, sovereign, monarch”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Malika
“queen”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mansur
“victorious, aided”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mansura
“victorious, aided”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Maryam
“beloved”
From Hebrew · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Marziya
“pleasing, approved”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mazhit
“glorious”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Medine
“Medina; literally 'the city'”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Meläwşä
“violet”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Meryem
“Mary (mother of Jesus)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Milyausha
“violet (flower)”
From Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Minsylu
“beauty with a birthmark”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mirza
“scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mukarrama
“honored, esteemed”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Mukhammad
“praised”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Mukhlisa
“sincere, devoted”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mukhtar
“chosen”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 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

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.