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

Browse Turkmen names

276 names · page 10 of 12

Ruslan
“lion”
From Proto-Turkic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rustem
“great hero”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sabyr
“patience, forbearance”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sähet
“auspicious hour”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sähetmyrat
“wish of an auspicious hour”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Şaja
“brave, courageous, plucky, bold”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Salyh
“righteous, virtuous”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Şamyrat
“the shah's wish”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Sapar
“Safar (second month); journey”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sapardurdy
“stayed (born) in Safar”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Sapargeldi
“came in Safar”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Sapargül
“flower of Safar”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Saparguly
“servant born in Safar”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Saparmyrat
“wish of Safar”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Şasenem
“royal beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Şatlyk
“joy, happiness”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Selbi
“cypress”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Senem
“beautiful; idol (goddess)”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Serdar
“commander, chief”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Seýitnazar
“the sayyid's glance”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Şirin
“sweet”
From Persian · Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Şöhrat
“fame, renown”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Soltan
“sultan, ruler”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Şükür
“gratitude, thanks”
From Arabic · Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 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.