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

54 names · page 2 of 3

Pergheni'ay
“the name Perghene with the epithet Ay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perghizat
“of noble lineage”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perhe
“joy”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Perhize
“one who guards herself; to abstain”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Peride
“peerless, unique; pearls and coral”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Peridigül
“girl like a pearl”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Perihe
“joyful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Periqe
“the best of anything, that which stands out”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perixe
“joyful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perizad
“child of a fairy”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perizat
“of noble lineage”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perize
“obligation, duty”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perqizat
“of noble lineage”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perwale
“name of a kind of fruit”
From European · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perwane
“name of a kind of insect”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Perwine
“the Pleiades”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Perzane
“wise, sage”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Pewziye
“one who achieves success”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Pexrinisa
“pride of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Pexrinur
“the name Pexri with the epithet Nur”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Peyker
“thoughtful, sincere; caring, compassionate”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Peyzigül
“noble, magnanimous girl”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Pezile
“virtuous, distinguished”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Pezilet
“virtue, good character”
From Arabic · 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.