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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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
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301 names · page 4 of 13
- “a single flower in the meadow”From Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “woman like a plane tree”From Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of the skilful”From Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “hand bouquet, bunch of flowers”From Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of the homeland; beauty of the land”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of comfort; flower of fortune, wealthy girl”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “fragrant flower”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “flower-figured, flower-bodied, of bud-like stature”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “special, excellent (woman)”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “(woman) like honey”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “influential girl; distinguished girl”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “precious, dear (woman)”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Hajer with the epithet Gül”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Hajixan with the epithet Gül”From Persian and Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl5 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of life”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Hajer with the epithet Gül”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who is protected”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “(woman) like honey”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who is protected”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of life”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of faith”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of the world, beauty of the world”From Persian · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “beautiful flower, beautiful woman, lovely girl; flower of beauty”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “flower of our clan”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurGirl4 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.
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.

