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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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Sayidin
“helper of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sayim
“one who fasts”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Sayipbeg
“bey of beys, hero among men”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sayir
“wakeful, alert”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Sayit
“victorious, famous; forearm; one who rises; helper”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Sayra
“fortunate, at ease, happy”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sayram
“name of several places, meaning "shallow ground"”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sayran
“one who strolls; a place name”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sayraniye
“one who strolls; a place name”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sayraqiz
“fortunate, at ease, happy”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sebbar
“enduring, patient”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sebbet
“one who longs, one who remembers deeply”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sebigül
“little girl, bud”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sebihe
“beautiful, pretty”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sebihet
“to swim”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Sebihulla
“God's pure one”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sebil
“path, means”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sebile
“path, means”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sebilulla
“path of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sebinisa
“pure woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sebir
“patient, forbearing”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sebiridin
“patient one of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sebiwet
“to long for”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sebixe
“beautiful, pretty”
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.