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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Arslanmyrat
“lion's wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Ata
“ancestor, forefather”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Atadurdy
“the forefather stayed”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Atageldi
“the forefather has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Atajan
“dear father”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Atamyrat
“wish of the forefathers”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Aýdogdy
“the moon was born (rose)”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aýmyrat
“moon wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Azat
“free”
From Ottoman Turkish and Classical Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Babageldi
“the grandfather has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Bagtyýar
“fortunate, lucky”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Batyr
“hero, brave warrior”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Bayram
“celebration, festival”
Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Baýramdurdy
“stayed (born) at the festival”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Baýramgeldi
“came at the festival”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial

Baýramguly
“servant born at the festival”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Baýrammyrat
“festival wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Begenç
“joy, delight”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Begmyrat
“lord's wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Berdi
“God gave a son”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Berdimyrat
“the wish was granted”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Daňatar
“dawn breaks”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Dawut
“beloved”
From Hebrew · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Didar
“seeing, eye, beholding, meeting face to face”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 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.