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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

Browse Uyghur names

20 names

  • Nadim

    “one who repents, regretful”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nadir

    “rare, exceptional”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nail

    “one who attains or receives”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nasır

    “helper, supporter”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nazir

    “new, beautiful; observer, onlooker; eye; director”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nijat

    “deliverance, salvation”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Niyaz

    “need, necessity, want, requirement, neediness; scarcity; beggary”
    From Classical Persian and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nizam

    “order, regulation”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuh

    “grief, weeping”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nur

    “light”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Nuradil

    “light of justice”
    From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurali

    “superior to all; son handsome as light”
    Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurdin

    “light of the faith”
    Uyghur, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri

    “luminous”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurikamal

    “light of perfection; son who has reached perfection, perfect man”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurjan

    “light + soul”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurlan

    “be filled with light; become a handsome young man”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nursapa

    “light of purity; pure son”
    Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurulla

    “light of God; son given by God”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurzat

    “light of freedom”
    Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
    Boy2 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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.