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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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419 names · page 12 of 18

Eren
“young man, male, noble person”
Turkish, Uyghur
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Erik
“industrious, courageous”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Erk
“power, might; freedom, free will”
Turkish, Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Erke
“free, independent; precious, cherished”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Erkech
“billy goat”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Érkesh
“wave of water; to surge”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Erkin
“free, independent”
From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Erkinay
“free girl, free woman”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Erkini
“head of the land, local leader”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Erkinnisa
“free girl, free woman”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Erklig
“strong, mighty”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Erk türük
“strength, power”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Erlan
“be a young man, grow into a man, live long”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ermidin
“paradise of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Erpan
“knowledge, insight”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesEditorial

Errabet
“educator, supporter, trustworthy guarantor”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ersg
“brave”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Ersh
“throne”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ershidin
“throne of the faith; truthful person of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ersiyma
“a woman like a young man”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ertékin
“princely young man, a man like a prince”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Erük
“apricot”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Esdul
“God's fortunate person”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Esdulla
“God's fortunate person”
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.