Meaning and Origin of: Haidar

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Lion

Boy name variations

Haider
Haydar
Hyder

Family name origins & meanings

  • Muslim : from a personal name based on Arabic haidar ‘lion’. This was an epithet of ‛Alī ibn Abi ̣Talib, fourth of the ‘rightly guided’ khalifs (ruled 656–61), the first imam of the Shiite Muslims.