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

698 names · page 1 of 30

Aba
“father, dad, my father”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ababekri
“father of Bekri”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abahaji
“the name Aba with the epithet Haji”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abaji
“the name Aba with the epithet Haji”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abambeg
“eternal beg”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Abaxan
“father, dad, my father”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abbas
“stern, frowning”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Abdiberi
“servant of God, who makes all believe”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdi'ezim
“servant of the Great God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdighopur
“servant of God, the Forgiver”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdilim
“servant of God, the Lenient and Forbearing”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdimam
“an imam”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdiman
“person of faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdimijit
“servant of the Great God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdimit
“servant of God, the Praiseworthy”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Abdiraman
“servant of the Merciful God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdirawup
“servant of the Compassionate God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdiraxman
“servant of the Merciful God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdirexim
“servant of the Merciful God”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdirup
“servant of the Compassionate God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdishükür
“servant of God, who accepts thanks”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdisim
“servant of the Great God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Abdiwari
“servant of God, the Creator of all”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Abdiwer
“servant of God, the Creator of all”
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.