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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

14 names

  • Badretdin

    “full moon of the faith”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Badriya

    “like the full moon”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bagautdin

    “splendor of the faith”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Bahadir

    “fearless, brave”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Bakhtiyar

    “fortunate”
    From Persian · Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Baki

    “everlasting, eternal”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bari

    “bringer of all into being, creator of all”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bashir

    “bringer of good news”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Batyr

    “hero, brave warrior”
    From Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Bayram

    “celebration, festival”
    Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bibinur

    “wife of the nobleman + light, shine”
    From Persian and Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Biktimer

    “strong as iron”
    From Turkic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Bilal

    “clear, fresh air”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bulat

    “steel”
    From Persian · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

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.