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

346 names · page 6 of 15

Gulsina
“flower-hearted”
From Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Güzel
“beautiful, good”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Habibulla
“beloved of God”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Halida
“eternal, everlasting”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Halima
“gentle, patient”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 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
İdil
“the Volga river”
From Turkic · Turkish, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ihsan
“kindness, excellence”
From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ildar
“lover of the people; wealthy; ruler of the people”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ildus
“friend of the homeland”
From Turkic and Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ilgiz
“one who travels the land”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
İlham
“inspiration”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Ilmir
“prince of the homeland”
From Turkic and Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ilnar
“fire of the homeland”
From Turkic and Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ilnaz
“pride of the homeland”
From Turkic and Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ilnur
“light of the homeland”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ilshat
“joy of the homeland”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ilsiyar
“loved by the people, homeland-loving”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
İlyas
“Elijah (name of the prophet)”
From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Insaf
“justice, fairness”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Irek
“freedom”
From Turkic · 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.