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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
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- “to befriend, treat a friend as a friend”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “success, achievement, result, honour, fortune; fairness”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “good, beautiful, noble”UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “dear good one”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy2 syllablesEditorial
- “good son of noble lineage”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “good, beautiful, noble”From Arabic · UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “good son of noble lineage”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “drizzle, rain of fortune, dew”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Tilal with the epithet Haji”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “hope, wish”From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “a child begged from God and received”From Turkic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “name of a gold coin”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “contribution, gift”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “composed, calm, peaceful”Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “full, matured”Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “name of a metal”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Niyaz with the epithet Toq”From Turkic and Persian · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “noble son, aristocrat, little master, little ishan”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “our master, our noble son”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “a kind of bird that sings beautifully at dawn”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “bullock; stud, hunk”Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Toxti with the suffix niyaz”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “may the child stay, remain, and not die”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “may the child stay and not die”UyghurBoy3 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.

