“who loves the people; friend of the people”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
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
79 names · page 1 of 4
- “city governor; commander; bringer of prosperity; female emir”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “lady; emir of women”From Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “paradise, garden; forbidden, barred”From Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Erem with the epithet Khan”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “girl like a flower”Uyghur, KazakhGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of worship”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “to prostrate, to worship; to serve God”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “good tidings; feeling”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of knowledge”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “lover of the people; love of the people”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “one who loves the people; friend of the people”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the homeland”From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur, Tatar, BashkirGirl2 syllablesEditorial
- “trust, absolute conviction; to believe”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “mother of Kulsum”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “female emir”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “lady, emir of women”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “to wait; longing”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “musk, fragrant substance from the musk deer”From Persian · UyghurGirl2 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.
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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.