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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Orazgeldi
“came during the fast”
From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Orazguly
“servant born in the fast”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Orazmyrat
“wish of the fasting month”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Osman
“little snake, young snake”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Öwez
“substitute, compensation”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Öwezgeldi
“a replacement has come”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Öwezmyrat
“wish of compensation”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Pälwan
“wrestler, champion”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Parahat
“peace, tranquility”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Perhat
“understanding, clever”
From Persian · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Perman
“order, decree”
From Persian · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Pirguly
“servant of the saint”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Polat
“steel”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rahym
“merciful”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Raşit
“rightly guided”
From Arabic · Turkish, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Rəcəb
“born in Rajab; honoured”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rejep
“born in Rajab; honoured”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rejepmyrat
“wish of Rajab”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Rəşid
“who guides on the right path”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rəsul
“messenger”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Röwşen
“bright, shining”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rozy
“daily sustenance, portion”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Ruslan
“lion”
From Proto-Turkic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rustem
“great hero”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
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.