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

935 names · page 31 of 39

Muhibidin
“lover of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Muhibul
“friend of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhibulla
“friend of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Muhidin
“executor of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhit
“the one who governs all”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhitulla
“God's helper”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Muhiy
“ever-living; alive”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhiydin
“eternal successor of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhkem
“firm, steadfast”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhsi
“the one who keeps count of all”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhsin
“benefactor, doer of good”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhsine
“benefactor, doer of good”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Muhsini'ay
“the name Muhsin with the epithet Ay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Muhtar
“chosen”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhtedi
“one who has found the right path”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Muhtedin
“one who walks the right path”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhtelim
“one who has come of age”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhterem
“respected”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhterime
“respected woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Muhtesib
“inspector of religious discipline”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mu'id
“helper; one who tries out; one who brings back”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Mu'idin
“helper of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mu'idulla
“God's helper”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mu'izulla
“God's person who brings peace of mind”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 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.