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

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Abduljabbar
“servant of God, the Compeller”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abduljalal
“servant of the Radiant God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abduljamal
“beautiful person”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abduljamii'
“servant of God, the Gatherer of all”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abduljebir
“servant of God, the Compeller”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abduljelil
“servant of the Great God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Cemal
“beauty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jabbar
“compeller; strong”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jabir
“compeller”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jabirshah
“the name Jabir with the epithet Shah”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Jahan
“world, age”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jahanquli
“one who acts according to the times”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Jahanshah
“the name Jahan with the epithet Shah”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Jalal
“majestic, radiant”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jalalidin
“great person of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented

Jalawidin
“light of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Jamalidin
“beauty of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Jamaydil
“with a tranquil heart”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Jami
“gatherer, collector”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jamid
“firm, solid”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jamii'
“gatherer, collector”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Janbay
“the name Jan with the epithet Bay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Jandost
“one who deeply loves friendship”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Janquli
“lover of life”
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.