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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

131 names · page 1 of 6

  • Babajan

    “dear father, a son like a father”
    From Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Babaxan

    “a son like a grandfather”
    From Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Babur

    “an animal (lion); a kind of plant”
    From Indic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Baghdad

    “the capital of Iraq”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bahadir

    “fearless, brave”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Baha'idin

    “esteemed person of the faith”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Bahawidin

    “esteemed person of the faith”
    Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Bahayidin

    “esteemed person of the faith”
    Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Bahir

    “bright, colourful”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bahtiyar

    “lucky, fortunate, happy”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ba'in

    “one who explains, expounds”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Baki

    “everlasting, eternal”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bakir

    “morning, early; not yet of age”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Balahaji

    “child, with the epithet Haji”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Balixan

    “my khan child”
    From Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Baman

    “Iranian deity; a plant; eleventh solar month; good notion”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Baqir

    “herd of cattle”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bara'idin

    “sinless, pure person of the faith”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Barajim

    “the name Bari with the epithet Haji”
    Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Barat

    “born in the month of Barat; sinless, freed from sin”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Bari

    “bringer of all into being, creator of all”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Barihajim

    “the name Bari with the epithet Haji”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Bariz

    “distinctive, prominent, clear”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Barman

    “wealthy”
    From Turkic · 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

  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.