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Bakhtiar Surname Meaning

Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Iranian, and Afghanistani: from a variant of the Persian personal name Bakhtiyār ‘lucky’ a derivative of the vocabulary word bakht ‘fortune’.

Ethnic name for a member of an Iranian tribe living in southwestern Iran of the same etymology as 1 above.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


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Between 1973 and 1997, in the United States, Bakhtiar life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1985, and highest in 1997. The average life expectancy for Bakhtiar in 1973 was 68, and 79 in 1997.

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