Bulat

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Tatar (Russia — Republic of Tatarstan)

Meaning

a Tatar masculine name meaning steel or Damascus steel, from the Tatar-Turkic bulat (steel, fine steel, wootz Damascus steel) — the same root as the Kazakh Bolat, both derived from Persian pulad (فولاد, meaning steel or hard iron); Damascus steel (bulat) was among the most prized materials in the medieval Islamic and Turkic world, used to forge the finest swords and armour, and names meaning steel are declarations of the warrior ideal — hard, unyielding, and of supreme quality; Bulat is particularly common in Tatarstan as both a given name and a surname, and it is associated with the celebrated Russian and Tatar poet and singer-songwriter Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997), who was partly of Georgian and Tatar ancestry and whose bard songs are beloved across the former Soviet space

Gender

male

Also spelled

Bolat, Bulat