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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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Xenisa
“good woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xenisaxan
“good woman”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Xenisem
“good woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xeride
“little girl, pure girl”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xerinsa
“good woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xesixan
“woman white and pure as cotton cloth”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xetire
“cheerful, cherished in the heart”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xetirigül
“cheerful, cherished in the heart”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Xetirixan
“cheerful, cherished in the heart”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Xeyrem
“good, goodness”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Xeyri
“good, goodness”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Xeyrigül
“good, goodness”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xeyrin'gül
“good girl”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xeyrinisa
“good woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Xeyrixan
“good, goodness”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Xezine
“mine of wealth, storehouse”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xezra
“green, greenery”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Xisletay
“virtuous girl, girl of fine character”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xobnigar
“beautiful, of fine appearance”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xumar
“longing, one longed for, one remembered, keepsake, legacy”
From Turkic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Xumaray
“longing, one remembered, keepsake, legacy; longed-for, remembered girl”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xumargül
“longing, one longed for, one remembered, keepsake, legacy”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xumarxan
“longing, one longed for, one remembered, keepsake, legacy”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Xumiray
“longed-for girl, remembered girl”
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.