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

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Tashpolat
“firm as stone and steel”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tashqin
“flood of water”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tashtömür
“a man like stone and iron”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tashtoxti
“the name Toxti with the epithet Tash”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tatliq
“the child's sweetness”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tay
“foal”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Tayi
“pure, clean”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Taylip
“seeker of knowledge; student”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Taymas
“one who walks the right path without straying”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tebdil
“change; changing, transferring”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tehsin
“to improve, strengthen; to praise”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tejelli
“to shine, sparkle, gleam, glow”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Teke
“male deer; billy goat”
From Uzbek · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tekin
“prince”
Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tələt
“fortunate; appeared, risen; face, countenance”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Te'lim
“to teach, instruct”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Témen
“lively, spirited, brisk”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Témenshah
“the name Temen with the epithet Shah”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Temin
“security, safety”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Temkin
“firm, strong, capable, self-possessed”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tengriberdi
“God gave this son”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Tengriqul
“servant of Tengri (God)”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Terbi
“follower, helper”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Térimqul
“farmer who sows”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 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.