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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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19 names

  • 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

  • Oraz

    “fast (of Ramadan)”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Orazberdi

    “given during the fast”
    From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Orazdurdy

    “stayed (born) during the fast”
    From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Orazgeldi

    “came during the fast”
    From Persian and Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Orazgul

    “flower of the fast”
    From Persian · Kazakh, Turkmen
    Girl3 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

  • Owadan

    “beautiful, lovely”
    From Persian · Turkmen
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • 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

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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Turkmen alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1381337093. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.