Yaman is a boy's name of Turkish origin meaning “right; right hand.” In 2024 it was given to 72 boys in the United States.
Yaman at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Turkish
Meaning
“right; right hand”
About the name Yaman
Yaman belongs to the Turkish tradition. Its meaning — “right; right hand” — is the sense carried by its Turkish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Yaman first appears in Social Security records in 1997. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2088 in 2024, and in 2024 72 babies received the name — 323 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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