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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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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):
- Arabic138
- Turkic121
- Persian102
- Hebrew10
- Greek3
- Mongolic2
- Turkmen2
Counted from 276 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Turkmen names by meaning
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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.