Badar

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Badru in NG Nigeria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Badar is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name9.6K records spelled Badar2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States

  Also written Badár

• Turkish given name3.7K records spelled Badar146 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Morocco, France, Syria

  Languages: Turkish, Arabic, French

  Also written Bedir, Badr, บิดร, บัดรี, บัดรู

• French given name1.9K records spelled Badar5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Italy

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Bädār, Bâdár, Bàdàr

• Turkish given name505 records spelled Badar3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Pakistan, India, Türkiye, Morocco

  Also written Bàdàr

• Hungarian given name200 records spelled Badar5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, India

  Also written Badár, Bádáŕ, Bádár, Bàdár

41 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●

Badar is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In otk, onomatopoeic for the sound of footsteps and the like

  as a word·Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)

• In zlm, edible sea-water fish, sp. unid.

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Swedish, present indicative of bada

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Hungarian, confused, incoherent

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, to open, to open up

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, Stolephorus

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rich Badarb. 1943USAmerican football player
• M. Arefin Badarb. 1961BDbadminton player
• Sultan Arefin Badarb. 1961BDbadminton player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 259 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Badar?

We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Badar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Badar have the most bearers?

Badar is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled badar.

How common is Badar compared with other names?

In Oman, Badar is the 28th most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.

Is Badar a male or female name?

Badar 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 does the name Badar mean?

Recorded meaning: onomatopoeic for the sound of footsteps and the like