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

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Gahryman
“hero”
From Persian · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Garry
“old one, elder”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Garyp
“stranger, wanderer”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gaýgysyz
“carefree”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Geldi
“he came, has arrived”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Geldimyrat
“the wish has come true”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Göwher
“jewel, gem”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gözel
“beautiful”
From Turkic · Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gülälek
“poppy”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Gülbahar
“rose (flower) + spring”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülendam
“rose-bodied, slender”
From Persian · Turkish, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Güljahan
“flower of the world, beauty of the world”
Uyghur, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljemal
“flower-like beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Gülnabat
“flower and crystal sugar”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Gulnara
“pomegranate blossom”
From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Gülşat
“joyful flower”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gülşən
“rose garden”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gülsoltan
“flower sultana”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Gunça
“bud”
From Classical Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gündogdy
“the sun has risen”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Gurban
“sacrifice”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Gurbanberdi
“given at the Sacrifice feast”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Gurbandurdy
“stayed (born) at the Sacrifice feast”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Gurbangeldi
“came at the Sacrifice feast”
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.