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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
373
Scripts in our data
Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1
tt

Browse Tatar names

237 names · page 1 of 10

  • Abdulla

    “servant of God”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Adel

    “just, fair”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Äðhäm

    “shady, darkened much, almost black”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aibek

    “moon lord”
    From Turkic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Aibulat

    “moon steel”
    From Turkic and Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Aidar

    “forelock, tuft of hair”
    From Turkic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ainur

    “moonlight”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Airat

    “wonder, amazement”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Akhmet

    “most praised”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Äkmäl

    “most perfect”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Akram

    “most generous”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Albert

    “noble and bright”
    From Germanic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Almaz

    “diamond”
    From Persian and Arabic · Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Amin

    “trustworthy, faithful”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Amir

    “flourishing, one who brings prosperity; commander, one who orders”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Anas

    “friendliness, companionship”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Anvar

    “brighter, most radiant”
    From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Arif

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

  • Arslan

    “lion”
    From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Asadulla

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

  • Äsğät

    “happiest, most fortunate”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ashraf

    “most noble”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Askar

    “army, soldiers”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ayaz

    “cool-headedness; the winter season”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

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):

  • Arabic
    282
  • Persian
    54
  • Turkic
    41
  • Hebrew
    16
  • Latin
    5
  • Greek
    4
  • Russian
    2

Counted from 373 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Tatar names by meaning

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 · Tajik

References for this page

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Tatar alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1302840773. 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.