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

220 names · page 6 of 10

Niyyet
“will, intention, resolve”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nizam
“order, regulation”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nizamet
“the name Nezim with the epithet Muhammad”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nizamidin
“principle and law of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Nizamulmulik
“the order and rule of the state”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Nizar
“lament; to lament”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Noder
“new, young”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Noruz
“early spring, new day, start of the year”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nuh
“grief, weeping”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nujiwul
“God's pure person”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nujiwulla
“God's pure person”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Nujub
“outstanding, famous”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nujüm
“stars”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nu'man
“prosperous; blood”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nu'manshah
“the name Numan with the epithet Shah”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Nur
“light”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nuradil
“light of justice”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuraji
“the name Nur with the epithet Haji”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurali
“superior to all; son handsome as light”
Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuralim
“light of the scholar”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuram
“light of my eyes”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nurambeg
“my son, the light of my eyes”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuramet
“light of fortune”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuramidin
“the name Hamidin with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Boy4 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.