Language guide

Uyghur Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Uyghur names on this site are shown first in the Uyghur Arabic alphabet, written right to left, exactly as recorded in our sources, followed by the Latin romanization where a source gives one. Uyghur naming draws on native Turkic words (for example words for the moon, light or bravery) as well as a large stock of Arabic and Persian names and elements. Spellings in other scripts are never generated automatically.

ئۇيغۇرچە

Karluk branch of the Turkic language family

Published names: 870
Scripts in our data: Latin, Arabic script
ISO 639-1: ug

Browse Uyghur names

252 names · page 1 of 11

Abide
“worshipper, devotee”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Abidinisa
“devout, pious woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented
Abidixan
“worshipper, devotee”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Abihayat
“water of life”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Abinisa
“devout, pious woman”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Adalet
“justice, fairness”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Adile
“upholder of justice”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Adine
“born on a Friday”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alanur
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alime
“possessor of knowledge, learned, woman of letters”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alimnisa
“woman scholar”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Alimnur
“light of the scholar”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alimqiz
“the name Alim with the suffix qiz”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alinisa
“the name Ali with the suffix nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Alinur
“the name Ali with the epithet Nur”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Alira
“name of a fruit”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Alirat
“name of a fruit”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aliye
“high, exalted (feminine)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Alma
“name of a fruit”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Almixan
“name of a fruit”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Altun
“name of a metal”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Altunnisa
“woman like gold”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Altunnur
“the name Altun with the epithet Nur”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Altunsa
“woman like gold”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

How Uyghur names are written

The Uyghur Arabic alphabet is the official script in Xinjiang. It writes all vowels, including ې, ۆ, ۈ and ئ-initial forms, which makes it closer to pronunciation than many other Arabic-based scripts. Uyghur Latin (ULY) is common online and in Western countries, and Uyghur Cyrillic is still used in Central Asia. Latin forms on this site are labelled with the system they follow.

Where Uyghur names come from

A name used in Uyghur is not automatically Uyghur in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Uyghur names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

Arabic
450
Turkic
129
Persian
99
Hebrew
13
Azerbaijani
5
Bashkir
4
Greek
3

Counted from 870 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Uyghur names by meaning

Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic languages, together with Uzbek. Related languages share many words, but a name is listed under a language only when it is documented there.

Other languages: Turkish · Kazakh · Kyrgyz · Azerbaijani · Turkmen · 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. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.