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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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18 names

  • Ýagmyr

    “rain”
    From Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýagşygeldi

    “a good one has come”
    From Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy4 syllablesEditorial

  • Yakup

    “Jacob (the prophet's name)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Turkmen, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Yakut

    “ruby”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Turkmen
    Unisex2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýazgül

    “spring flower”
    From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýazguly

    “servant born in spring”
    From Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýazmyrat

    “spring wish”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ybraýym

    “father of many”
    From Hebrew · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yhlas

    “sincerity, devotion”
    From Arabic · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ykbal

    “good fortune”
    From Arabic · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ylham

    “inspiration”
    From Arabic · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ylýas

    “my God is Yahweh”
    From Hebrew · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýoldaş

    “companion, comrade”
    From Turkic · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ysgender

    “defender of men”
    From Greek · Turkmen
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Ysmaýyl

    “God hears”
    From Hebrew · Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Yunus

    “Jonah (name of the prophet)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ýusup

    “he will add”
    From Hebrew · Uyghur, Turkmen
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ýyldyz

    “star”
    From Turkic · Turkmen
    Girl2 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.