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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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320 names · page 4 of 14

Bayaghut
“wealthy, rich”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Bayaji
“the name Bay with the epithet Haji”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bayashad
“living rich and happy”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bayaxun
“a wish for prosperity”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Baybeg
“rich young man, rich person”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bayböri
“Böri 'wolf' with the epithet 'rich'”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Baybugha
“Bugha 'deer' with the epithet 'rich'”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Baychong
“a wish to be rich and eminent”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Baydin
“the faith's rich one”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bayhaji
“the name Bay with the epithet Haji”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Bayiz
“servant of God, the Resurrector”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Baymet
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Bay”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Baymewla
“the name Mewla with the epithet Bay”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Baymolla
“the name Mewla with the epithet Bay”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Baymuhemmed
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Bay”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented

Baymurad
“the name Murad with the epithet Bay”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Bayqiz
“a wish for the girl's prosperity”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bayshat
“living rich and happy”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Baytemür
“Tömür 'iron' with the epithet 'rich'”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Bayxan
“rich person”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bedel
“successor”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Bedelqiz
“successor”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bedinur
“beautiful as light”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Bedi'uljamal
“beauty of beauties”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 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.