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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276 names · page 1 of 12

Abdulla
“servant of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdyrahman
“servant of the Most Merciful”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Agageldi
“the elder brother has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Agajan
“dear elder brother”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Agamyrat
“elder brother's wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Ahmet
“more praiseworthy; most praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Akgül
“white rose; white flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Akja
“fair-skinned, whitish”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Akmaral
“white + Cervus elaphus maral”
From Classical Mongolian · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Akmyrat
“pure wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aknabat
“white crystal sugar, sweet one”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Allaberdi
“son given by God”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur, Uzbek, Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Allaguly
“servant of God”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Allamyrat
“wish granted by God”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Allanazar
“God's favourable glance”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial

Allayar
“one whose companion is God”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Altyngul
“golden flower”
From Proto-Turkic and Classical Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aly
“high, exalted”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Aman
“safe, peaceful, tranquil”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Amandurdy
“he stayed safe”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Amangeldi
“arrived safely”
From Arabic and Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Amanmyrat
“wish for safety”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Anna
“grace, favour”
From Hebrew · Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Annaberdi
“given on a Friday”
From Persian 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.