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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127 names · page 5 of 6

Reximulla
“God's mercy and compassion”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rexman
“compassionate, merciful”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rexmet
“to show mercy, to feel compassion”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rexmetsha
“mercy of the King (God)”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rexmidin
“mercy of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rexmitul
“mercy of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rexmitulla
“mercy of God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Righbet
“enthusiasm, longing, inspiration”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rija
“hope, wish”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ripa'et
“superiority”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ripat
“superiority”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ripet
“high position; rank”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rishit
“one who shows the right path”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Riza
“agreement, satisfaction”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Riza'idin
“approval of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Rizaq
“abundant giver of sustenance”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rizatikin
“Riza with the epithet tikin”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rizqul
“sustenance given by God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rizqulla
“sustenance given by God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rosul
“envoy, messenger, prophet”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rozi
“fortune, daily bread”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rupa'et
“superiority, lofty voice”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rustem
“great hero”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ruxsi
“beautiful”
From Persian · Uyghur
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

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.