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: 138
Scripts in our data: Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1: ba

Browse Bashkir names

138 names · page 2 of 6

Azat
“free”
From Ottoman Turkish and Classical Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Aziz
“powerful, mighty; dear, precious”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bakhtiyar
“fortunate”
From Persian · Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Banu
“lady”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bashir
“bringer of good news”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Batyr
“hero, brave warrior”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bayram
“celebration, festival”
Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bibinur
“wife of the nobleman + light, shine”
From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bikbulat
“strong steel”
From Turkic and Persian · Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Biktimer
“strong as iron”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Bulat
“steel”
From Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Cəmil
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Danil
“God is my judge”
From Hebrew · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Danis
“knowledge”
From Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Delbär
“love, beloved”
From Persian · Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Dinara
“dinar”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Emir
“prince, commander; leader or ruler”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Faiz
“victorious, winner”
From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableEditorial
Fakhretdin
“pride of the faith”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Fatimə
“one who weans”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Fazıl
“eminent, excellent (person)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Fərid
“alone, single”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ğarifulla
“the Knower of God”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Gäwhär
“diamond”
From Bashkir · Bashkir
Girl2 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
100
Persian
27
Turkic
16
Bashkir
13
Hebrew
6
Greek
3
Kipchak
1

Counted from 138 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.