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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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217 names · page 9 of 10

Roshenay
“girl radiant as the moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Roshen'gül
“skylight, lamp stand; bright, luminous”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Roshennisa
“woman bright as the moon, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Roshinay
“girl radiant as the moon”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rosul
“envoy, messenger, prophet”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rozi
“fortune, daily bread”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rozigül
“flower of good fortune”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Rupa'et
“superiority, lofty voice”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rupiye
“name of the currency of India and Pakistan”
From Indic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ruqiye
“one who is kind; one who rises high, advances”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ruqiyxan
“one who is kind; one who rises high, advances”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Rustem
“great hero”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ruxsari
“face; beautiful”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ruxsi
“beautiful”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ruxsigül
“beautiful girl”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Ruzalim
“Ruzi with the epithet alim”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ruzem
“day, daytime”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ruzi
“day, daytime”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ruzi'alim
“Ruzi with the epithet alim”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ruzimet
“Ruzi with the epithet Muhammad”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ruzimuhemmed
“Ruzi with the epithet Muhammad”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Ruzinsaxan
“Ruz with the added element nisa”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ruziqul
“Ruzi with the added element qul”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ruzixan
“day, daytime”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 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.