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

149 names · page 2 of 7

Qabus
“handsome man”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qadir
“powerful, capable”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qahhar
“wrathful, valiant, compeller of all”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qahir
“lofty, strong, wrathful, peerless, destroyer, conqueror, fearsome”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qahiri
“lofty, strong, wrathful, peerless, destroyer, conqueror, fearsome”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qa'id
“leader, commander, general”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qa'idin
“commander, leader of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qa'idulla
“God's commander”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qa'il
“speaker, orator”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qa'im
“one who stands ready”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qa'immewla
“Qa'im with the epithet mewla”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qa'imulla
“one who stands ready for God's command”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qana'et
“to consent, to be content, contentment”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qana'itulla
“God's approval”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qari
“reader (one who recites)”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Qarihaji
“Qari with the epithet haji”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qasım
“one who distributes”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Qawul
“one who accepts; capable”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qawuz
“one who makes all bow; taker of souls; captor”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qaxar
“wrathful, valiant, compeller of all”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qay
“name of a tribe”
Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qayidin
“commander, leader of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qayil
“speaker, orator”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qayim
“one who stands ready”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented

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.