Bakhodir
The name means "hero, brave", and its roots sit outside the usual Polish name pool. Only about 150 men carry it in Poland, so most people here have never met one.
Bakhodir Pronunciation
Bakhodir is pronounced bahk-KHO-deer (/bakˈxɔdir/).
What Bakhodir means
Where Bakhodir comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bakhodir comes from bahadur, a word that traveled across Turkic and Mongolic languages before it settled in Uzbek. It named a brave warrior, a champion sent to the front. The short meaning holds to that root: hero, brave.
The word spread far. Persian took it in, and so did the courts of Central Asia, where a bahadur was a man tested in battle. Bakhodir is the Uzbek form, and the cognate Bahodir stands beside it in the same tradition.
On a Polish school register the name would sit among the Kacpers and Szymons. It asks little and claims a lot. A boy called Bakhodir carries a title once earned by soldiers.
For a Polish family the name arrives from outside the local calendar. It has no imieniny in the Church books. What it offers is the meaning itself: odważny, a hero in the oldest sense of the word.
How many people are named Bakhodir
1 in 138612 men in Poland is named Bakhodir. 154 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2601 among male names.