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 4 of 7

Qemiridin
“moon of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qemirulla
“God's one, beautiful as the moon”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qemra
“moonlight”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qender
“owner of very great wealth”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qendil
“hanging lamp”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qendir
“hanging lamp”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qenter
“owner of very great wealth”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qesam
“pretty, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qesem
“pretty, beautiful”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qeshem
“lion”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qetiridin
“the faith's all-powerful one; might of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qewam
“basis, foundation”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qewamidin
“basis, foundation of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qewi
“strong”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qewilla
“God's power and might”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Qewiyulla
“God's power and might”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qewmidin
“Muslim, belonging to the Muslims”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qewzi
“to make bow, to take life”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qewzidin
“chieftain of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qexridin
“strength, triumph of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qeyis
“measure, standard”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qeyiz
“measure, standard”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Qeysa
“to walk with long strides”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qeyser
“emperor, khan, king; great, mighty, grand”
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.