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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Gylyç
“sword”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gylyçmyrat
“sword wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Halyl
“close friend”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hangeldi
“a khan has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Hasan
“good; handsome, beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hemra
“companion, fellow traveller”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hojageldi
“the hoja has come”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hojaguly
“servant of the master”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hojamyrat
“the master's wish”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hudaýberdi
“God-given”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hudaýguly
“servant of God”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hudaýnazar
“God's favourable glance”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hüseyin
“diminutive of Hasan ('good, handsome')”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
İlyas
“Elijah (name of the prophet)”
From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Isa
“God saves”
From Classical Persian and Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Juma
“Friday”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jumadurdy
“stayed (born) on a Friday”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Jumageldi
“came on a Friday”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Jumaguly
“servant born on Friday”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Jumamyrat
“Friday wish”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Kakageldi
“the father has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Kakajan
“dear father”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Kerim
“noble; generous, precious”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Magtymguly
“servant of the master”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 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.