Bahtiyar

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bahtiyar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: happy.

rarermore common
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 951(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 6.6K
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 3K

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)

≈13,000 people, est.

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 951 (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

happy

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bahtiyar 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.

Where Bahtiyar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#944≈13,000 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Bahtiyar66
UZ Uzbekistan—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Bahtiyar5
TM Turkmenistan#147≈5,800 est.≈1 in 951—Bahtiyar10
AZ Azerbaijan#763≈1,500 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Bahtiyar9
KZ Kazakhstan—≈120 est.≈1 in 154K—Bahtiyar7
KG Kyrgyzstan—≈94 est.≈1 in 63K—Bahtiyar4
NL Netherlands—281 in 617K29Bahtiyar9

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bahtiyar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Türkiye, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Baḫtiyār

  • Bulgarian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Türkiye, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian

    Also written Бахтияр, Бахтиар, Bahtiar, Bakhtiiar, Bahtiяr

  • Uzbek given name77 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

    Languages: Uzbek, Russian, Kazakh

    Also written Бахтияр, Bakhtiyar, Бахтіяр, Baxtiyar, Bakhtiiar

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Türkiye, Malaysia, Turkmenistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bahtiŷar

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bahtiyar is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, Mutlu.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

190019502000Bakhtiar Rana, b. 1910Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, b. 1925Bahtiyar Yorulmaz, b. 1955Bachtyar Ali, b. 1960Bahtiyar Can Vanlı, b. 1962Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, b. 1965Bahtiyar Engin, b. 1965Bäxtiyar İzmaylof, b. 1983Bakhtiar Rahmani, b. 1991Jah Khalib, b. 1993

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Bahtiyar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—28#9,527
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—21#18,997

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Bahtiyar mean, and where does it come from?
happy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Bahtiyar a male or female name?
Bahtiyar is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Bahtiyar?
In the etymology graph, Baxtiyor, Bakhtiyar and Bakhtiyor are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Bahtiyar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Bahtiyar in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahtiyar.
How common is the name Bahtiyar?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 28 people named Bahtiyar, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
How common is Bahtiyar compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Bahtiyar is the 944th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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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, “Bahtiyar” — the 944th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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