Language guide

Turkmen Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Turkmen names are recorded in the Latin alphabet of Turkmenistan. Each name page shows whether its meaning is documented by a cited source or comes from our editorial research.

Türkmençe

Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 276
Scripts in our data: Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1: tk

Browse Turkmen names

87 names · page 1 of 4

Akgül
“white rose; white flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Akja
“fair-skinned, whitish”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Akmaral
“white + Cervus elaphus maral”
From Classical Mongolian · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aknabat
“white crystal sugar, sweet one”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Altyngul
“golden flower”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Annagül
“Friday flower”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Annasoltan
“Friday sultana”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Arzygül
“flower of longing”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýbölek
“piece of the moon”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýgözel
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aygul
“moon + flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aýjemal
“moon-like beauty”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýmaral
“moon doe”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýna
“mirror”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aýnabat
“moon and crystal sugar”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Ayperi
“moon + fairy”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aýşa
“living, full of life”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aýsoltan
“moon sultana”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bagtygül
“flower of good fortune”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bahar
“spring (the season)”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Baýramgül
“festival flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Bibi
“grandmother, lady, princess”
From Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bossan
“garden, orchard”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Dilber
“one who draws the heart”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

How Turkmen names are written

A modified Latin alphabet is official in Turkmenistan; earlier Turkmen was written in Arabic script and, during the Soviet period, in Cyrillic.

Where Turkmen names come from

A name used in Turkmen is not automatically Turkmen in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Turkmen names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
138
Turkic
121
Persian
102
Hebrew
10
Greek
3
Mongolic
2
Turkmen
2

Counted from 276 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Turkmen names by meaning

Turkmen belongs to the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages, together with Turkish and Azerbaijani. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Uyghur · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Uzbek · Tatar · Bashkir · Tajik

References for this page

Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikipedia contributors. Turkmen alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381337093. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.