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

214 names · page 4 of 9

Asima
“protector, guardian”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Asime
“sinless, pure”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asipe
“paternal family; violent storm; a variant of Asib”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asipxan
“paternal family”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asira
“left-handed girl”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asire
“closeness, friendship”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asiye
“sociable; medicine, remedy”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Asiygül
“sociable; medicine, remedy”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asiyxan
“sociable; medicine, remedy”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asmarigül
“the name Esmar with the epithet Gul”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Asude
“calm, quiet”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Asurem
“name of an ancient people”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Atike
“generous”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Atiqiz
“generous”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Atixan
“the name Ata with the epithet Khan”
Uyghur
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented

Atixénim
“girl who feels like a father”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ay
“moon”
Turkish, Uyghur
Unisex1 syllableDocumented
Aybanu
“lady like the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybéliq
“the name Beliq with the epithet Ay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybexti
“fortunate woman”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybibi
“lady beautiful as the moon”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybulaq
“the name Bulaq with the epithet Ay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybustan
“the name Bustan with the epithet Ay”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Aybüwi
“lady beautiful as the moon”
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.