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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.
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

183 names · page 5 of 8

  • Iqbal

    “fortunate one; future; fortune, prosperity”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Iqmar

    “bright, clear”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Irbol

    “be a brave young man; may you live long”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Irem

    “paradise”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Irpan

    “knowledge; feeling; gratitude; culture”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Irshad

    “to guide, to instruct”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Isam

    “self-reliant; battle belt”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Isaq

    “God's wealth”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Isar

    “chosen, selected”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İshak

    “Isaac (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ishan

    “those (ones)”
    From Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ishanchong

    “Ishan with the epithet 'great'”
    From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Is'haq

    “he laughs”
    From Hebrew · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ishqiyar

    “may one always be with the love of God”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ishqul

    “love of God”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ishqulla

    “love of God”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İskender

    “Alexander (Arabic-Persian form of the name)”
    From European · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Islah

    “to improve, to change, to correct”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Islahat

    “to change, to improve”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • İslam

    “Islam; submission to God”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Islamqul

    “servant of Islam”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Isma'il

    “one who carries out God's command; God heard”
    From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İsmayıl

    “God hears”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Ismet

    “to protect; pure, sinless”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.