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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.

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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162 names · page 2 of 7

Hawa
“one who gathered; one who contains; dark green”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hawagül
“one who gathered; one who contains; dark green”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hawale
“to entrust; money transfer; to inform”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hawaligül
“to entrust; money transfer; to inform”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hawalixan
“to entrust; money transfer; to inform”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hawanem
“woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hawanigül
“woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hawanisa
“woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hawanisaxan
“woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented
Hawanixan
“woman like Mother Hawa (Eve)”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hawaqiz
“one who gathered; one who contains; dark green”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hawaxan
“one who gathered; one who contains; dark green”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hayatay
“Hayat with the epithet 'moon'”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hayatnisa
“Hayat with the suffix 'women'”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hayatnopus
“living spirit, immortal soul”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Hayatqiz
“life force, vitality”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hayatxan
“life force, vitality”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hazime
“intelligent, resolute; cautious, thorough”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hebibe
“friend, lover, dear, beloved”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hedile
“justice; just woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hediqe
“garden”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hedixan
“gift, present”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hediye
“gift, present”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hejer
“one who suffers separation, emigrant; stone”
Uyghur
Girl2 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.