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

Sabir
“patient”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sabira
“patient”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Sabit
“firm, steadfast”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadyka
“truthful, sincere”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Safiya
“pure, sincere”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Sagit
“happy, lucky”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sa'id
“victorious, famous; forearm; one who rises; helper”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Saida
“female equivalent of سَيِّد (sayyid, “master, sir”):; mistress, princess; …”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Saifulla
“sword of God”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Säkinä
“peace of mind”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Salawat
“laud”
From Bashkir · Uyghur, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Salikh
“righteous, good”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Salikha
“righteous, good”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Salim
“safe, secure”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sälimä
“safe, sound”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Samat
“eternal, everlasting”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Saniya
“second child”
From Arabic · Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sara
“princess, noblewoman”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Seyit
“master, lord”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Shakir
“one who is grateful, one who gives thanks”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shakira
“grateful, thankful”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Shamil
“including, comprising”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Shamsetdin
“sun of the faith”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Shamsinur
“sunlight”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 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.