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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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252 names · page 9 of 11

Shöhretay
“famous girl”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shöhretnisa
“fame of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sikine
“quiet, gentle; steadfast; at ease, peaceful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sikinigül
“quiet, gentle; steadfast; at ease, peaceful”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sikinixan
“quiet, gentle; steadfast; at ease, peaceful”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sima'ay
“moon-faced, with the likeness of the moon”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Simagül
“sign, image, face, countenance, figure”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Simaxan
“sign, image, face, countenance, figure”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sipirem
“to be patient, patient”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sirajem
“lamp of my home, my lamp of hope”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sirajigül
“lamp of my home, my lamp of hope”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sirajixan
“lamp of my home, my lamp of hope”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sitinsa
“lady, the lady among women”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sitinsaxan
“lady, the lady among women”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Siyane
“to keep, to protect”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Siyanigül
“to keep, to protect”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Siyma
“sign, image, face, countenance, figure”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Siyma'ay
“moon-faced, with the likeness of the moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sopure
“to be patient, patient”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sopurixan
“to be patient, patient”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sösen'gül
“name of a kind of flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Söser
“a kind of water animal”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Söseray
“Söser with the epithet ay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Söserxan
“a kind of water animal”
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.