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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312 names · page 5 of 13

Bedük
“great, grand, lofty”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Beg
“khan, ruler, prince, beg, man”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Beg arslan
“man like a lion”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Begarslan
“a man brave as a lion”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Beg bars
“man like a tiger”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Begbol
“growing into a capable man”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Beg buqa
“man strong as a bull”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Beghaji
“the name Beg with the epithet Haji”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Begi
“like a beg”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Beglen
“become a beg, become a khan”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Beglig
“descendant of begs, noble”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Begmet
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Beg”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Begmuhemmed
“the name Muhammad with the epithet Beg”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Begmurad
“a man whose wish is fulfilled”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Begquli
“servant of the lord (God)”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Begtash
“a man firm as stone”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Beg temür
“man firm as iron”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Beg turmish
“stood like a beg”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Beg tutuq
“man of rank”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Begyar
“one whose companion is the lord (God)”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Behi
“handsome, pretty”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Behiye
“handsome, pretty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Bəhram
“name of an ancient Iranian shah”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Behrem
“my benefit, my gain”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 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.