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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

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Burslan
“leopard”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Burxan
“Buddha, God”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Burxan quli
“servant of Buddha (of God)”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Busaq
“tall, of tall stature”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Busare
“joyful lady, happy lady”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Buselime
“healthy lady, peaceful lady”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Buseydem
“lady master; my master's lady”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Buseynem
“lady master; my master's lady”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Busheri
“lady of the city”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Busherixan
“lady of the city”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Bustan
“garden, orchard”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bustanay
“the name Bustan with the epithet Ay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Buwashem
“lady like Aisha”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Buwashixan
“lady like Aisha”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Büwi
“grandmother, lady, princess”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Büwinisa
“grand lady among women”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Büwiniyaz
“lady bestowed as a gift”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Büwiqiz
“young lady”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Buxeliche
“the name Xedije with the epithet Bibi”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Buyan
“fortune, happiness; merit, goodness”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Buyan qar
“snow that rains fortune”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Buyan qara
“great goodness”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Buyruq
“official”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Buyruq beg
“official man”
Uyghur
3 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.