Bahar
given name · Latin script
Meaning: spring, springtime
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑhɑɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bahar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Turkmenistan it is the 25th most common given name.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 305(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 772
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 943
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
spring, springtime
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bahar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #229 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 772 | — | Bahar | 109 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Bahar | 9 |
| TM Turkmenistan | #25 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 305 | — | Bahar | 14 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #132 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 943 | 573 | Bahar | 35 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bahar | 8 |
| US United States | — | 1,231 | 1 in 270K | 1.1K | Bahar | 132 |
| CY Cyprus | #203 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Bahar | 20 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bahar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Kuzey yarım kürede 21 Martta gündüz gece eşitliğiyle başlayarak 22 Haziranda gün dönümü ile biten, kış ve yaz arasındaki mevsim.2. Bu mevsimde açan çiçekler ve yapraklar. 3. Gençlik çağı.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Swedish, Bahar är ett persiskt namn som betyder ’vår’ (årstiden). En känd namnbärare är den svenska skådespelerskan Bahar Pars (f. 1979).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, ocean
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
spring
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In English, A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Elahehb. 1934IRnot in their usual nameIranian singer (1934–2007)
- Bahar Davaryb. 1964IRIranian-American theologian
- Bahar Soomekhb. 1975USMexican-born Iranian American actress
- Bahar Mertb. 1975TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1975)
- Bahar Parsb. 1979IRSwedish actress
- Barbara Turnerb. 1984USnot in their usual nameTurkish-American basketball player (born 1984)
- Bahar Süerb. 1985TRTurkish actor (born 1985)
- Bahar Toksoyb. 1988TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1988)
- Bahar Kizilb. 1988DEGerman singer
- Bahar Şahinb. 1997TRTurkish actor (born 1997)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 70 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #10,695 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 573 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 106 | #10,695 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 30 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bahar mean, and where does it come from?
- spring, springtime Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bahar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Bahar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahar.
- How do you pronounce Bahar?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑhɑɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Bahar a male or female name?
- Bahar is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Bahar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,231 people named Bahar in 2020, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Bahar compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Bahar is the 229th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bahar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baharThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bahar” — the 229th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.