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

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Kümüş
“silver”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Leyla
“night (via the Semitic source of the name)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Mähri
“affection, love”
From Classical Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mähriban
“kind, affectionate”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mährigül
“flower of affection”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mährijemal
“kind-hearted beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Mahym
“my moon”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Maral
“red deer doe”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Maya
“she-camel”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl1 syllableEditorial
Merjen
“pearl”
From Classical Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Meryem
“Mary (mother of Jesus)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Mylaýym
“gentle, mild”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Nabat
“crystallized sugar”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Nazik
“delicate, tender”
From Persian · Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Nurgül
“girl like light”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Nurjemal
“radiant beauty”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ogulbahar
“spring child”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogulgerek
“a son is wished for”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogulgözel
“beautiful child”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogulmaral
“doe-like child”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogulnabat
“sweet child”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogulsoltan
“sultana child”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Ogultäç
“crown child”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Orazgul
“flower of the fast”
From Persian · Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

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.