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Tajik Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Tajik names are included only where a name of Persian origin is also used among Turkic speakers. Each entry says so and states how its meaning was established.
Тоҷикӣ
Western Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family (Persian), not Turkic
Published names
14
Scripts in our data
Latin
ISO 639-1
tg

Browse Tajik names

7 names

  • Bahodur

    “hero, brave”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Behrouz

    “good day, fortunate day”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Daler

    “courage, bravery”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Jamshed

    “shining, radiant”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Khurshed

    “sun”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Komron

    “successful, fortunate”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Umed

    “hope”
    From Persian · Tajik
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

How Tajik names are written

Tajik is written in Cyrillic in Tajikistan; the same Persian-origin names also appear in Arabic script and in Latin transliteration elsewhere.

Where Tajik names come from

A name used in Tajik is not automatically Tajik in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Tajik names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

  • Persian
    13
  • Arabic
    1

Counted from 14 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Tajik names by meaning

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