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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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Gülshatqiz
“flower of gladness (joy)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshatxan
“flower of gladness (joy)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshaxan
“the shah's flower; flower of flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshen
“flower gardens, flowers”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenay
“the name Gülshen with the epithet Ay”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenqiz
“flower gardens, flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshenxan
“flower gardens, flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülshinay
“the name Gülshen with the epithet Ay”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsiman
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsimanqiz
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülsimanxan
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülsimaxan
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülsiyma
“flower-like, flower-marked, flower-faced”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsösen
“name of a kind of flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsöser
“söser flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Gülsüm
“chubby-cheeked, plump-faced”
Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülsümay
“the name Kulsum with the epithet Ay”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsümxan
“chubby-cheeked, plump-faced”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülsun
“chubby-cheeked, plump-faced”
Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülsur
“flower of joy”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülsurux
“red rose”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gültaji
“crown flower; a flower worthy of wearing as a crown”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gültajixan
“crown flower; a flower worthy of wearing as a crown”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gültamara
“flower-like, flower-cheeked, dripping with flowers”
From Persian · 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.