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

Browse Uyghur names

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Söserxan
“a kind of water animal”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Su'ade
“name of a kind of plant”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Su'at
“messenger”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Subah
“beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Subanqul
“servant of the pure God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Subare
“stone (name of a mineral)”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Subat
“firm, resolute; calm, quiet”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Subatay
“strong-willed girl”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Subatgül
“strong-willed girl”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Subhi
“dawn, light”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Subhinisa
“Subhi with the added element nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Subhiye
“dawn, light”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Subihan
“pure”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Subihanqul
“servant of the pure God”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Subihe
“dawn, early morning”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Subinisa
“Subhi with the added element nisa”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Subixe
“dawn, early morning”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Subuh
“pure, clear”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Subur
“to be patient”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Subure
“to be patient, patient”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sudiye
“black-coloured, dark”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sudiye'ay
“Sudiye with the epithet ay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sudur
“name of a kind of tree”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sudurnisa
“name of a kind of tree”
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.