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 8 of 15

Khaidar
“lion”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khakim
“wise”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khalid
“eternal, everlasting”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khalil
“close friend”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khalim
“gentle, patient”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khalisa
“pure, sincere”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Khamid
“praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khamida
“praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Khanifa
“upright, sincere in faith”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Khasan
“good, handsome”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Khayrulla
“goodness of God”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Khusain
“good little one”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Läbib
“sensible, reasonable, smart”
From Arabic · Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Lala
“tulip”
From Persian · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Latif
“gentle, kind; refined, charming”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Latifa
“gentle, delicate”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Leila
“night”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Leyla
“night (via the Semitic source of the name)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Leysan
“first spring rain”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Liliya
“lily”
From Latin · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Lutfiya
“kind, gracious”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
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

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.