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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

18 names

  • Fahim

    “understanding, perceptive”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Faiz

    “victorious, winner”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

  • Faiza

    “victorious, successful”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Fakhretdin

    “pride of the faith”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Farid

    “unique, peerless”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Farida

    “unique, precious”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Farkhat

    “understanding, clever”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Fatikh

    “conqueror, opener”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Fatikha

    “opening, beginning”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fatima

    “one who weans (a child)”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fatkhulla

    “victory from God”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fauziya

    “victorious, successful”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Fazıl

    “eminent, excellent (person)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Fazilya

    “virtuous, excellent”
    From Arabic · Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fazlulla

    “grace of God”
    From Arabic · Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Firuz

    “victorious, triumphant”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Firuza

    “turquoise”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Fuat

    “heart”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy1 syllableEditorial

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.