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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
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- “bey, emir, master, man”From Arabic · UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “the name Abid with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Abidin with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Adil with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “ladder of ascent; to ascend vertically”From Arabic · UyghurUnisex2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Haji with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Mirhaji with the epithet Gül”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Ali with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Ali with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Alim with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “fortunate bey”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “fortunate bey”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Hamid with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “exercise; to practise”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Miran with the epithet Shah”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Abidin with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Ewla with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “bey, emir, master, man; compound of mir and akhun”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “one who possesses spring”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Baqi with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “man like the full moon”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “son protected by God”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “refers to the meridian line”From European · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “fortunate, prosperous man”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.

