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

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324 names · page 8 of 14

Gülizebir
“beautiful girl”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülizehire
“beautiful flower”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented
Gülizemin
“flower of the earth, beauty of the earth”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülizeper
“flower of victory”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülizer
“girl precious as gold”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülizuhre
“girl beautiful as the morning star”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Güljahan
“flower of the world, beauty of the world”
Uyghur, Turkmen
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljamal
“flower-beautiful”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur, Kyrgyz
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Guljan
“dear flower”
From Persian · Uyghur, Kyrgyz
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Güljehre
“flower-faced, with a face like a flower”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljem
“beautiful flower, beautiful woman, lovely girl; flower of beauty”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Güljemiyet
“flower of our society”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljennet
“flower of Paradise”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljewher
“fine flower, the finest of flowers”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Güljewri
“woman like a red rose”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Gülkine
“little flower; just like a flower”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülmam
“flower of faith”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülman
“flower of faith”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Gülmanxan
“flower of faith”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülmerem
“special girl”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gülmerixan
“special girl”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Gülmeryem
“the name Mariye with the epithet Gül”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Gulmet
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Gül”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Gülmextum
“flower of Makhtum”
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.