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 7 of 12

Leyla
“night (via the Semitic source of the name)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Magtymguly
“servant of the master”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Mähri
“affection, love”
From Classical Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Mähriban
“kind, affectionate”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mährigül
“flower of affection”
From Persian · Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Mährijemal
“kind-hearted beauty”
From Persian and Arabic · Turkmen
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Mahym
“my moon”
From Persian and Turkic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Maksat
“aim, purpose”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mämmet
“praised”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mämmetguly
“servant of Muhammad”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Maral
“red deer doe”
From Turkic · Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Maya
“she-camel”
From Turkic · Kazakh, Turkmen
Girl1 syllableEditorial
Mekan
“place, abode”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Mərdan
“men; manly, gallant”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mergen
“one who takes aim”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Merjen
“pearl”
From Classical Persian · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Meryem
“Mary (mother of Jesus)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Muhammet
“praised, praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Musa
“Moses (the prophet's name)”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mylaýym
“gentle, mild”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Myrat
“wish, goal”
From Arabic · Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Myratberdi
“the wish was granted”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Myratgeldi
“the wish has come”
From Arabic and Turkic · Turkmen
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Nabat
“crystallized sugar”
From Persian · 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

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.