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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217 names · page 5 of 10

Rehmidin
“mercy of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rehmitulla
“mercy of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rehnema
“one who shows the way, guide”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Rehube
“became spacious; became generous”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Re'is
“head, chief”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Re'ise
“chief, leader (female)”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Reja
“hope, wish”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rejeb
“honoured; born in the month of Rajab”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rejebgül
“honoured; born in the month of Rajab”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rejebqari
“Rejeb with the epithet qari”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rejebxan
“honoured; born in the month of Rajab”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rejep
“born in Rajab; honoured”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rejibe
“honoured; born in the month of Rajab”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rejibulla
“God's honoured one”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rejiwul
“God's honoured one”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Rejiwulla
“God's honoured one”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Rejul
“God's honoured one”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Remet
“to show mercy, to feel compassion”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Remitilla
“mercy of God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Remulla
“God's mercy and compassion”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Remzay
“Remze with the epithet ay”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Remze
“example, symbol”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Remzi'ay
“Remze with the epithet ay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Remziye
“example, symbol”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 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.