title: Bahadır
text: # Bahadır
  
  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
  
  * Arabic: Bahadur (بهادر)
  * Georgian: Baadur (ბაადურ)
  * Persian: Bahadur (بهادر)
  * Urdu: Bahadur (بہادر)
  * Turkmen: Batyr
  
  ### 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
  