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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253 names · page 9 of 11

Seyyidlachin
“to hunt with a falcon; owner of a falcon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Seyyidniyaz
“Seyyid with the added element niyaz”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Seyyidqari
“Seyyid with the epithet qari”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Seyyidumer
“our master Omar”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Seyyidzade
“descendant of a khoja”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sezgür
“perceptive, alert, clever”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Siddiq
“loyal, true, honest, faithful, sincere”
Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sidiqulla
“God's loyal friend”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Silabirdin
“pure one of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Simet
“servant of God, who relieves the needy”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Simin
“value, precious; plump”
Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Simir
“fruit; moonlight”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sinan
“spearhead”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sipir
“to be patient”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Siraj
“lamp”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Siraji
“lamp”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sirajidin
“lamp of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sirajim
“my lamp (my son)”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Siyawush
“name of one of the ancient Turkic heroes”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Siyit
“master, lord, sir, teacher, prophet”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Siyitemet
“our master Ahmed”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Siyitniyaz
“Seyyid with the added element niyaz”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Siyitömer
“our master Omar”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sopur
“to be patient”
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.