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 2 of 12

Annadurdy
“stayed (born) on a Friday”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Annageldi
“came on a Friday”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Annagül
“Friday flower”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Annaguly
“servant born on Friday”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Annamyrat
“Friday wish”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Annasoltan
“Friday sultana”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Arslan
“lion”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Arslanmyrat
“lion's wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Arzygül
“flower of longing”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ata
“ancestor, forefather”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Atadurdy
“the forefather stayed”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Atageldi
“the forefather has come”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Atajan
“dear father”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Atamyrat
“wish of the forefathers”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Aýbölek
“piece of the moon”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Aýdogdy
“the moon was born (rose)”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aýgözel
“beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aygul
“moon + flower”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Aýjemal
“moon-like beauty”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýmaral
“moon doe”
From Turkic · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Aýmyrat
“moon wish”
From Turkic and Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Aýna
“mirror”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Aýnabat
“moon and crystal sugar”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Ayperi
“moon + fairy”
From Turkic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

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.