Bahadir

given name · Latin script

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

/bahadiɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bahadir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Turkish Bahadır.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 85K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 168K
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 5.9K

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.

Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,800 people, est.

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Turkish Bahadır.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bahadir 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 Bahadir is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UZ Uzbekistan—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 17K—Bahadir7
DE Germany—≈950 est.≈1 in 85K—Bahadir76
TM Turkmenistan#840≈940 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Bahadir6
AZ Azerbaijan—≈540 est.≈1 in 19K14Bahadir18
TR Türkiye—≈490 est.≈1 in 168K—Bahadir83
AT Austria—≈110 est.≈1 in 85K19Bahadir17
NL Netherlands—671 in 258K117Bahadir30

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); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)

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

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bâhâdìr

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Uzbek, Ukrainian

    Also written Бахадир, Бахадыр, Bakhadir, Bahadır, Бахадйр

  • Uzbek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Russia

    Also written Bahadír

  • Bangla given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Bahadyr, বাহাদির

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Bilâl Bahadırb. 1983TRnot in their usual nameTurkish actor and director (born 1983)
  • Yunus Bahadirb. 2002BETurkish-Belgian association football player (born 2002)

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)

InformalMerhaba Bahadir,Hi Bahadir, (English)

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 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Bahadir
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007117#16,827

Reference works 3

  • 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)

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 Bahadir mean, and where does it come from?
From Turkish Bahadır. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Bahadir?
A machine transcription gives /bahadiɾ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Bahadir a male or female name?
Bahadir 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.
In which country does Bahadir have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Bahadir in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bahadir.
How common is the name Bahadir?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 67 people named Bahadir, about 1 in 258 thousand residents.
How common is Bahadir compared with other names?
In Turkmenistan, Bahadir is the 840th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Bahadir” — the 840th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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