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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162 names · page 3 of 7

Hejergül
“one who suffers separation, emigrant; stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hejerqiz
“one who suffers separation, emigrant; stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hejerxan
“one who suffers separation, emigrant; stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hekimay
“Hekime with the epithet 'moon'”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hekime
“sage, wise, intelligent”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hekimi'ay
“Hekime with the epithet 'moon'”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hekimnisa
“the wise one among women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Helile
“female companion, wife”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hélilixan
“female companion, wife”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Helime
“gentle, patient, forbearing, mild”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Həmidə
“praiseworthy”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemigül
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemile
“sword belt”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemime
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemimixan
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented

Hemishebahar
“unfading, ever fragrant like spring”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented
Hemixan
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemmiqiz
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemmixan
“warm; warm milk; close friend”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hempigül
“pure; upright”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemrabüwi
“lady who is a companion”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Hemragül
“companion, fellow traveller”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hemrah
“companion, fellow traveller”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hemrahbibi
“lady who is a companion”
From Persian · 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.