“shady, darkened much, almost black”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Language guide
Tatar Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions
Tatar names are recorded in Tatar Cyrillic. Each name page shows whether its meaning is documented by a cited source or comes from our editorial research.
Татар теле
Kipchak branch of the Turkic language family
- Published names
- 6
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Cyrillic
- ISO 639-1
- tt
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6 names
- “knowing”From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the Knower of God”From Arabic · Tatar, BashkirBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “luminous”From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, TatarBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “steel”From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “symbolic”From Arabic · Azerbaijani, TatarBoy2 syllablesDocumented
How Tatar names are written
Tatar is written in a Cyrillic alphabet with additional letters; Arabic and Latin scripts were used in earlier periods.
Where Tatar names come from
A name used in Tatar is not automatically Tatar in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Tatar names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):
- Arabic5
- Persian1
Counted from 6 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Explore related languages
Tatar belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, together with Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Bashkir. 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
References for this page
- Wikipedia contributors. Tatar alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1302840773. 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.