Bulat
Bulat is both a masculine give name and surname with various origins. As a masculine given name, it is derived from a Russian word meaning "steel", ultimately from Persian پولاد. From Middle Persian, ??????. Cognate with Iranian borrowing Old Armenian պողովատ, պողոպատ.
There are patronymic surnames derived from it: Bulatov, Bulatović.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexandra Bulat, Romanian-English politician
- Basia Bulat, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Gajo Bulat, Croatian lawyer and politician
- Gajo Bulat, Croatian lawyer and politician
- Iurie Bulat, Moldovan weightlifter
- Ivan Bulat, Croatian football player
- Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
- Nicolae Bulat, Moldovan historian
- Nikol Bulat, Croatian singer
- Rade Bulat, Yugoslav Partisan
- Tamara Bulat, Ukrainian-American musicologist
- Tihomir Bulat, Croatian football player
- Tomás Bulat, Argentine economist and journalist
- Victor Bulat, Moldovan football player
- Viktor Bulat, Belarusian athlete
- Vitalie Bulat, Moldovan football player
- Virginia C. Bulat, American author and historian
- Bulat Abilov, Kazakh businessman and politician
- Bulat Aqchulaqov, Kazakh deputy Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources
- Bulat Iskakov, Kazakh diplomat
- Bulat Jumadilov, Kazakh boxer
- Bulat Okudzhava, Georgian "author's song" musician
- Bulat Utemuratov, Kazakh businessman and diplomat