Bahadır is a common masculine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Bahadır" means "brave", "galahad", "hero", "valiant", and/or "gallant". This name is written with a dotless ı. It appears as BAHADIR in uppercase and bahadır in lowercase.
Related names Bahadır is the modern version of "Baghatur".
On the other hand, Mete is a deformed version of "Mo - du" and is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people. Moreover, Baghatur is also used as a masculine given name by Turkish people as Batur, and as in other cognate forms.
Equivalents Turkish: Batu and Batur Uzbek: Batyr Mongolian: Baatar (as in Ulaanbaatar). Tatar and Kazakh: Батыр (Batyr) Turkmen: Batyr Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر) Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ) Persian: Bahadur (بهادر) Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر) Nepali: Bahadur (बहादुर) Azerbaijani: Bahadır
Other Relations History: Modu (Possibly a Middle Chinese form (冒頓) of the old Turkic honorific title "bagatur".) Turkish: Mete (Turkish form of Modu.) Caucasian Mythology: Batraz (Possibly from Turkic "bagatur". This is the name of the leader of the superhuman Narts in Caucasian mythology.) Ossetian: Batraz (Батырадз)
Notable people with the name Given name Bahadır Akkuzu (1955–2009), Turkish musician Bahadır Alkım (1915–1981), Turkish archaeologist Bahadır Demir (1942–1973), Turkish assassinated diplomat Bahadır Gökay (born 1955), Turkish painter
Surname Abulghazi Bahadur, ruler of the Khanate of Khiva Oğuzhan Bahadır (born 1979), Turkish football goalkeeper Turgay Bahadır (born 1984), Turkish-Austrian footballer