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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
139
Scripts in our data
Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1
ba

Browse Bashkir names

139 names · page 3 of 6

  • Ğirfan

    “knowledge”
    From Arabic · Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Gözäl

    “beautiful”
    From Bashkir · Uzbek, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Gülbahar

    “rose (flower) + spring”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Gülnur

    “flower + light”
    From Persian and Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Gulshat

    “flower + joyful, cheerful”
    From Classical Persian · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Habibulla

    “beloved of God”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Hasan

    “good; handsome, beautiful”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Həbib

    “beloved”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Hüseyin

    “diminutive of Hasan ('good, handsome')”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İbrahim

    “Abraham (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İlham

    “inspiration”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İlyas

    “Elijah (name of the prophet)”
    From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İskender

    “Alexander (Arabic-Persian form of the name)”
    From European · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İslam

    “Islam; submission to God”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Käbir

    “great”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Kadir

    “powerful, mighty; capable”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Kamal

    “perfection”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Kamaletdin

    “perfection of the faith”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Kasım

    “divider, distributor”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Khayrulla

    “goodness of God”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Läbib

    “sensible, reasonable, smart”
    From Arabic · Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Latif

    “gentle, kind; refined, charming”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Leyla

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

  • Mahmut

    “praised, praiseworthy”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, 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
    101
  • Persian
    27
  • Turkic
    16
  • Bashkir
    13
  • Hebrew
    6
  • Greek
    3
  • Kipchak
    1

Counted from 139 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.