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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

67 names · page 1 of 3

Shadigül
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shadixan
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shadiye
“singer”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shahadet
“testimony; martyrdom”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shahaman
“Aman with the epithet shah”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shahbanu
“daughter of a shah; queen, princess”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shahibe
“ash grey”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shahide
“witness, one who sees, one who testifies”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shahnazxan
“delicate, supreme in delicacy”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sha'ire
“female poet”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shakire
“one who is grateful, one who gives thanks”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sharapet
“greatness, grandeur, honour”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shatgül
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shatnisa
“joyful, happy woman”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shatqiz
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Shawan
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shawan'gül
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shawanqiz
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shawanxan
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shazadem
“child of a shah”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shazadigül
“child of a shah”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
She'ban
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Shehame
“lofty, precious”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shehide
“one who gives herself in the way of God”
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.