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

21 names

Yaqut
“a kind of precious stone”
From Persian · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yaqutgül
“a kind of precious stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yaqutxan
“a kind of precious stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yarigül
“Yari with the epithet 'flower'”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yarisenem
“friend of the beautiful one”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Yarsenem
“friend of the beautiful one”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yasemin
“jasmine”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yasemin'gül
“girl like a jasmine flower”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Yasimen
“name of a kind of flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yasimen'gül
“girl like a jasmine flower”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Yesire
“became easy; found fortune”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yesmine
“name of a kind of flower”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yéterxan
“enough now”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yétexan
“enough now”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yetime
“unique, one and only”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Yulduz
“girl like a star”
Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yultuz
“girl like a star”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yultuzay
“girl like a star”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yultuznisa
“girl like a star”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Yusra
“left side; ease, fortune”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yusure
“fortune, prosperity”
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.