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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383 names · page 11 of 16

Shara'udin
“the sharia (law) of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sharawidin
“the sharia (law) of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sharexman
“Rahman with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sharulla
“fame of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shatliqyar
“may happiness be his companion”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shatyar
“may happiness be his companion”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shawaz
“hawk”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shaweg
“Shah with the epithet beg”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shawket
“majesty, great, strong”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shawudun
“star of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shaxap
“star”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shayexmet
“Ahmed with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shayidin
“one who bears witness to the faith”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shayimerdan
“king of the brave”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shayimnur
“light of my Shah (God)”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Shayimqul
“servant of the Shah (God)”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shayit
“witness, one who sees, one who testifies”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Shayüsüp
“Yüsüp with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
She'ban
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Shehdiyar
“notable of the homeland”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shehid
“one who gives himself in the way of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shehidul
“one devoted to God; one who bears witness to God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shehidulla
“one devoted to God; one who bears witness to God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Shehir
“renowned, famous”
From Arabic · 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.