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

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372 names · page 14 of 16

Ashur
“born in the month of Ashura; tithe collector”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asib
“paternal family”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asil
“of noble lineage”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asim
“protector”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asimmuhemmed
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Asim”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Asmar
“fruits, results”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asqin
“noble, magnanimous”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Asur
“name of an ancient people”
From Hebrew · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ata
“ancestor, forefather”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Atabek
“palace tutor, tutor”
Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Atalip
“father of Talib”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Atalla
“gift of God, God-given”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ata'ulla
“gift of God, God-given”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ataxan
“the name Ata with the epithet Khan”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Atip
“compassionate, kind”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Atixan
“the name Ata with the epithet Khan”
Uyghur
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented
Awakri
“father of Bekri”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Awamsélim
“father of Muslim”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Awamsil
“father of Muslim”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Awaz
“voice”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Awudun
“devoted worshipper of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Awush
“worshipper, devotee”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Awut
“worshipper, devotee”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Axche
“silver coin”
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.