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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Gülxéwir
“flower of tidings”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülxumar
“charming, languid-eyed girl; girl as a keepsake”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülyar
“together with a flower”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülyarxan
“together with a flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülyasimen
“jasmine flower”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülyasmen
“jasmine flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülyaxan
“together with a flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülyesmin
“jasmine flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzadem
“born of a flower, child of a flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzadixan
“born of a flower, child of a flower”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülzaman
“flower of the age, beauty of the age”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzar
“rose garden, flower bed”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Gülzarixan
“flower garden, flower gardens”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülzarxan
“flower garden, flower gardens”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzat
“born of a flower; flower-beautiful; of flower lineage”
Uyghur, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Gülzeliqe
“smooth, gentle girl”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülzémin
“flower of the earth, beauty of the earth”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzeper
“flower of victory”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzer
“girl precious as gold”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülzewir
“beautiful girl”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzipe
“flower of victory”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülzir
“beautiful flower”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülzire
“beautiful flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülziwir
“beautiful flower”
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.