Names of Turkmenistan TM

The names that most distinguish Turkmenistan from the rest of the world are Atayew, Çaryyew and Atayewa; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Turkmenistan are Şerdar and Atayew.

Written in Turkmen, Russian.

Population
5.5M
Name forms recorded
17K
BBuilt from 17,105 name forms in our corpus, 32 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

How names work in Turkmenistan

6 naming traditions are in use in Turkmenistan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Turkmenistan

Every record we hold for Turkmenistan — 17,105 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#NameEstimated bearersHow common
1Şerdar——
2Merdan——
3Batyr——
4Maýşat——
5Azat——
6Maral——
8Myrat——
9Begenç——
10Meýan——
11Dowran——
12Gulşat——
13Aygul——
14Şohrat——
15Wepa——
17Aýmyrat——
18Guwanç——
19Ahmet——
20Parahat——
21Mahri——
22Dowletgeldi——

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Turkmenistan at an authority tier we would headline. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Turkmenistan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Turkmenistan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MerdanŞerdarBatyrMyratBegençMaralAzatDowranGulşatŞohratAýmyratGuwançParahatDowletgeldiŞemşatAyjemalAtajanMahriGunçaMayşaEzizMayaRowşenGuljahanAmangeldiWepaMeylişGuljemalGowherNurmyratTazegulDowletGulşirinGurbangeldiAynabatOguljanBerdimyratAygulTawuşToylyBayramgeldiDowletmyratAgamyratBaşimAynaAygozelOgulnabatŞaparmyratNurgeldiAyşoltanBahargulOrazmyratLaçynBegmyratArzygulAllamyratNurmuhammetŞulgunOrazgeldiAmanmyrat
Sized by how much of the difference between Turkmenistan's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Names in Turkmenistan are written in Latin (99%) and Cyrillic (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Balýansurname(measured from records)
Şerdargiven name(measured from records)
Atayewsurname(measured from records)
Merdangiven name(measured from records)
Batyrgiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Turkmenistan, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Turkmenistan?
We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Is there one naming system in Turkmenistan?
No — 6 are described on this page (Turkmen, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Turkmenistan”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/TM (data snapshot 2026-10-09).