Girl, also used for boys · Persian (Urdu usage) · Muslim
Bakhtawar
بختاورSay it bakh-TAA-war
- Meaning today
- Fortunate, lucky, bringer of good fortune
- Original meaning
- "happy, prosperous; rich" Steingass, p. 158
- Say it
- bakh-TAA-war
- Written
- بختاور
- Other spellings
- Bakhtawer, Bakhtaawar, Bakhtavar
Bakhtawar
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Bakhtawar meaning
Bakhtawar (بختاور) is a Muslim girl's name of Persian origin (Urdu usage), also used for boys.
Happy, prosperous; rich
Also used to mean: fortunate, lucky, bringer of good fortune
Bakhtawar (بختاور) is a Persian compound of bakht, "fortune, luck", and the suffix -āwar, "bringing, possessing". Steingass's Persian dictionary defines it as happy, prosperous and rich. In Urdu the word is used of a lucky, well-off person, and as a name it expresses the hope that the child brings good fortune with her. It is used as a girl's name across north India and Pakistan, and occasionally for boys. Name lists give it as "fortunate" or "bringer of good fortune".
Source: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian–English Dictionary (1892), p. 158 · entry bakht-āwar (بختاور) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Steingass, bakht-āwar, p. 158
Famous namesakes
- Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari, daughter of Benazir Bhutto
Spellings
Bakhtawar · Bakhtawer · Bakhtaawar · Bakhtavar