Babar

Babar (Urdu: بابر ‎), also variously spelled as Baber,[1] Babur,[2] and Babor is a male given name of Persian origin,[3] generally taken in reference to the Persian babr (Persian: ببر), meaning "tiger".[1] It is the general name of the animal which is adopted in the Arabic. There is a similar name in connotation to the Arabic male given form and generic name of the animal by the name "Nimr" (Arabic: نَمِر namir) which means "yellow-black stripped cat", i.e. "tiger".

The word repeatedly appears in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh and was borrowed into the Turkic languages of Central Asia.[2][4] Thackston argues for an alternate derivation from the PIE word "beaver", pointing to similarities between the pronunciation Bābor and the Russian bobr (бобр, "beaver").[5]

The most famous bearer of this name was Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur, known popularly as Babur, a prince of the Timurid dynasty who founded the Mughal Empire in South Asia, and thus the name is popular amongst Muslim communities in South Asia.