Turkmen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tuɾcmen/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Turkmen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. In Afghanistan it is the 32nd most common surname.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 650(inferred from the name graph)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K
- SYSyria≈1 in 9.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 650 (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Türkmen in TR Türkiye, DE Germany, SY Syria and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Turkmen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #118 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Türkmen | 97 |
| AF Afghanistan | #32 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 650 | — | Turkmen | 6 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Türkmen | 8 |
| IQ Iraq | #595 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Türkmen | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Türkmen | 64 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Türkmen | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 338 | 1 in 51K | 338 | Turkmen | 22 |
| CY Cyprus | #349 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Türkmen | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Turkmen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lang., people, Asia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Norwegian Bokmål, form removed by a 1984 spelling decision; superseded by turkmener
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, Turkmen (native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan) (usually male)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, Turkmen (of, from or relating to Turkmenistan)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, Turkmen, Turkoman, Turkman (person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Emre Türkmenb. 1988GBTurkish-British keyboardist (born 1988)
- Aysun TürkmenTRTurkish researcher
- Osman TürkmenTRTurkish researcher
- Yunus TürkmenTRTurkish researcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 7 | #71,464 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Turkmen mean, and where does it come from?
- A Turkic language of the Turkmen spoken mostly in Turkmenistan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Turkmen?
- A machine transcription gives /tuɾcmen/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Turkmen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Turkmen in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türkmen.
- How common is the name Turkmen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 338 people named Turkmen in 2007, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Turkmen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Turkmen is the 118th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/turkmenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Turkmen” — the 118th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.