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: 6733
Scripts in our data: Latin, Arabic script
ISO 639-1: ug

Browse Uyghur names

187 names · page 8 of 8

Sultannigar
“Sultan with the epithet nigar”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sultannisa
“sultan of women (most beautiful of the beautiful)”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sultannisep
“of royal lineage”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sultanrejeb
“Sultan with the epithet Rejeb”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sultanrejebxan
“Sultan with the added element Rejebxan”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented
Suma
“fame, name”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Sumenber
“white-bodied”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sumenbuy
“fragrant as jasmine”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sumensa
“beautiful”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Supare
“stone (name of a mineral)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Supiye
“pure; wool, wool-worker; Sufi, pious; a religious rank”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Süretqiz
“to resemble; copy, form”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Süreyya
“the Pleiades (star cluster)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Suriye
“name of a country”
From Hebrew · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Surure
“joy”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Suweyde
“black; common people, folk, nation; great, eminent; little dark one”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Suweyle
“bright; wakeful, alert; star of fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zuhel
“name of the planet Saturn”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zuheyle
“little Saturn”
From Arabic · 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
3157
Persian
1004
Turkic
873
Hebrew
45
European
11
Azerbaijani
5
Uyghur
5

Counted from 6733 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.