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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- “the name Muhammad with the epithet Mirza”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy5 syllablesDocumented
- “scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Yaqub with the epithet Mirza”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Mirza with the epithet Shah”From Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “son of a bey; of bey lineage”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Weli with the epithet Mirza”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Mirza with the epithet Khoja”From Persian · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Yaqub with the epithet Mirza”From Persian and Hebrew · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “son of a khan”From Persian · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “master of the age”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “very great bey”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “landowner, owner of land, master of the homeland”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Zeper with the epithet Mir”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Ehmed with the epithet Mirza”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”From Persian · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Zulal with the epithet Mir”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Zaban with the epithet Mir”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “sweet, tasty, delicious”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “creation, discovery”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “creation, discovery”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “master, teacher, lord, nobleman; benefactor; a religious title”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “master of the universe”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Baqi with the epithet Mewla”UyghurBoy4 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.

