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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
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- “noble; generous, precious”From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijani, TurkmenBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the generous God gave”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “miracle of the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “dear generous one”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “generosity of the Shah (God)”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “generosity of the Shah (God)”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “God's generosity; God's miracle; God's noble servant”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “God's revelation”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “big, great, mighty”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “greatness of the faith; great person of the faith”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the greatness of God”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the Kawthar of the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “name of an ancient Iranian shah”From Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “one who swallows his anger”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “humble, modest; younger son”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Kichik with the epithet Haji”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “a foreign personal name”From European · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “God's capable person”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “raisins”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “greenery, verdure”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “derived from "commune"”UyghurBoy7 syllablesDocumented
- “kindred heart, of one heart”From Turkic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “like the sun; supreme, above all”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “sunrise side, the east”From Turkic · UyghurBoy3 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.

