Turkmen Names - Behind the Name

Annagül f Turkmen
Derived from Turkmen anna "Friday" and gül "flower, rose".

Arslan m Turkish, Turkmen
Turkish variant and Turkmen form of Aslan.

Ata 1 m Turkish, Turkmen
Means "ancestor" in Turkish and Turkmen.

Atajan m Turkmen
From Turkmen ata meaning "father, ancestor" combined with the suffix jan meaning "dear, darling" (of Persian origin).

Aýna f Turkmen
Means "mirror" in Turkmen, ultimately from Persian آینه (ayneh).

Aýnabat f Turkmen
Derived from Turkmen aý "moon" and nabat, a type of crystallized sugar candy.

Azat m Tatar, Kazakh, Turkmen, Turkish, Armenian
Form of Azad in several languages.

Bahargül f Turkmen
Derived from Turkmen bahar meaning "spring" and gül meaning "flower, rose" (both roots ultimately of Persian origin).

Batyr m Turkmen
Turkmen form of the Turkic word bagatur meaning "hero, warrior".

Çary m Turkmen
Means "king, tsar" in Turkmen.

Durdy m Turkmen
From Turkmen durmak meaning "stop, stand".

Dzhamilya f Tajik, Turkmen
Tajik and Turkmen form of Jamilah.

Eziz m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Aziz.

Gülşat f Turkmen
From Persian گل (gol) meaning "flower, rose" and شاد (shad) meaning "happy".

Gurban m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Qurban.

Jennet f Turkmen
Turkmen form of Cennet.

Jeren f Turkmen
Turkmen form of Ceren.

Kadyr m Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Kazakh
Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Kazakh form of Qadir.

Kerim m Turkish, Turkmen, Bosnian
Turkish, Turkmen and Bosnian form of Karim.

Mähri f Turkmen
Possibly derived from Persian مه (mah) meaning "moon" or مهر (mehr) meaning "friendship, love, kindness".

Maksat m Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Kazakh
Means "goal, purpose, intention" in Turkmen, Kyrgyz and Kazakh, all derived from Arabic مقصد (maqsid).

Maral f Mongolian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Turkmen
Means "deer" in Mongolian, Azerbaijani, Armenian and Turkmen, referring to the Caspian Red Deer.

Mekan m Turkmen
Means "place, town, edge" in Turkmen, ultimately from Arabic مكان (makan) meaning "place, position".

Merdan m Turkmen
From Persian مردانه (mardaneh) meaning "manly, masculine".

Mergen m Turkmen
Means "sharp-eyed" in Turkmen.

Merjen f Turkmen
Turkmen form of Mercan.

Muhammet m Turkish, Turkmen
Turkish and Turkmen form of Muhammad.

Myrat m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Murad.

Nazar m Russian, Ukrainian, Turkmen, Armenian
Russian, Ukrainian, Turkmen and Armenian form of Nazarius.

Näzik f Turkmen
Means "gentle, tender, delicate" in Turkmen, ultimately from Persian نازک (nazok).

Oraz m Turkmen, Kazakh
Means "fasting, Ramadan" in Turkmen and Kazakh (of Persian origin).

Öwez m Turkmen
Means "compensation" in Turkmen (of Arabic origin).

Röwşen m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Roshan.

Ruslan m Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Ossetian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Circassian, Indonesian, Malay
Form of Yeruslan used by Aleksandr Pushkin in his poem Ruslan and Ludmila (1820), which was loosely based on Russian and Tatar folktales of Yeruslan Lazarevich.

Selbi f Turkmen
Means "cypress" in Turkmen (derived from Persian, ultimately from Sumerian).

Serdar m Turkish, Turkmen
Turkish and Turkmen form of Sardar.

Sona 2 f Turkmen
Turkmen form of Suna.

Süleýman m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Süleyman.

Ýusup m Turkmen
Turkmen form of Yusuf.

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