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

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Gülruy
“flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülruz
“flower of the daytime”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülsadet
“flower of happiness”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsane
“second daughter”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsaniye
“second daughter”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsare
“flower of joy, flower of delight”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsari
“flower of joy, flower of delight”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsel
“(woman) like honey”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülselxan
“(woman) like honey”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsenem
“beautiful girl, the most beautiful of beauties”
Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülser
“influential girl; distinguished girl”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülshadet
“the name Shahadet with the epithet Gül”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshadixan
“flower of gladness (joy)”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülshaqiz
“the shah's flower; flower of flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshatqiz
“flower of gladness (joy)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Gülshatxan
“flower of gladness (joy)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshaxan
“the shah's flower; flower of flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshen
“flower gardens, flowers”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenay
“the name Gülshen with the epithet Ay”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenqiz
“flower gardens, flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenxan
“flower gardens, flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshinay
“the name Gülshen with the epithet Ay”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsiman
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsimanqiz
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl4 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.