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

129 names · page 5 of 6

Qüdrət
“power, capacity, faculty”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qudritulla
“power of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qulibeg
“servant of the beg”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qulnezer
“servant who has met with the gaze”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qulun
“name of an animal (foal)”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qulxuaje
“servant of the master, servant dedicated to the master”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qumri
“turtle dove”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qurban
“something offered to God”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qurbanidin
“sacrifice of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qurbanjan
“dear sacrifice”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Qurbanmuhemmed
“Qurban with the epithet Muhammad”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Qurbantay
“Qurban with the added element tay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qureysh
“name of an ancient tribe in Mecca”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qurwanmet
“Qurban with the epithet Muhammad”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qutbi
“axis, centre”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Qutbidin
“axis of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qutidin
“axis of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qutluq
“fortunate, happy, auspicious”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qutluqqedem
“one whose arrival brings good fortune”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qutpi
“axis, centre”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qutpidin
“axis of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qutub
“axis, centre”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Quza
“man gentle as a lamb, son lovable as a lamb”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Quzam
“man gentle as a lamb, son lovable as a lamb”
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.