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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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324 names · page 9 of 14

Toyin
“monk”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Toyin quli
“servant of the monk”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Toypolat
“a steel-like son was born, a feast at home”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Toyzun
“village elder; of good origin, noble, open-hearted”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tözün
“village elder; of good origin, noble, open-hearted”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tu'ayim
“may God grant my daughter long life”
Uyghur
Girl1 syllableDocumented
Tu'ayimxan
“may God grant my daughter long life”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Tuba
“happiness, joy; most beautiful, like paradise's Tuba tree”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Tubagül
“happiness, joy; most beautiful, like paradise's Tuba tree”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Tubi
“happiness, joy; most beautiful, like paradise's Tuba tree”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Tudaji
“the name Turdi with the epithet Haji”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tudush
“fight, battle; to stand”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tughlugh
“standard-bearer”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tughluq
“standard-bearer, holder of a banner”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tughluqtömür
“the name Tughluq with the epithet Tömür”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented

Tughmish
“born, descendant”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tughsugh
“sunrise, east”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tujanxan
“guardian of the world; stay, live a full, long life”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Tülendi
“whose wealth increased, who grew rich, renewed”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tulpar
“the winged horse of legend”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tulparxan
“the winged horse of legend”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Tulun
“full, matured”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tumar
“wrapping, wrapped”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Tumlugh
“gift”
Uyghur
2 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.