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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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
149 names · page 1 of 7
- “one who accepts God's command”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, who makes all bow”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, the Almighty”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, the All-Powerful”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who is always ready”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, the Strongest of all”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “person of beautiful stature”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of Qays, "the measure"”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, the Ever-Living”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of God, the Great, Pure and Holy”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “lofty, peerless, wrathful, destroyer, subduer”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “a commander”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “a qari (Quran reciter)”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who distributes”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of the judge”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “a moon-like person”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who owns great wealth”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who is always present”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “powerful, mighty; capable”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “divider, distributor”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who submits to God”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who accepts; capable”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who makes all bow; taker of souls; captor”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who submits to God”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.

