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

Browse Tatar names

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Abdulla
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Adel
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Tatar
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Adilya
“just, fair”
From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 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
Aigul
“moon flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aiguzel
“lovely as the moon”
From Turkic · Tatar
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ainur
“moonlight”
From Turkic and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Airat
“wonder, amazement”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aisylu
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 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
Albina
“white”
From Latin · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aliya
“exalted, noble”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Almaz
“diamond”
From Persian and Arabic · Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Unisex2 syllablesEditorial
Alsu
“rosy, pink-cheeked”
From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Altynchach
“golden-haired”
From Turkic · Tatar
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Amin
“trustworthy, faithful”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Amina
“trustworthy, safe”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Amir
“flourishing, one who brings prosperity; commander, one who orders”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 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):

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

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.