Bakhtiar Family History
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
