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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 6 of 18

  • Eke

    “younger brother, younger sister”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ekin

    “crop, harvest”
    From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ékinzar

    “cultivated lands, lush green crops”
    From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Ekmel

    “most complete, most perfect”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Əkrəm

    “most generous, most honourable”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ela

    “highest, superior, sublime”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Elagül

    “highest, superior, sublime”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elaman

    “safety, peace; peace of the people”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elanisa

    “the name Ela with the suffix nisa”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Elanur

    “the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elaxan

    “highest, superior, sublime”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Élaxun

    “Ali with the suffix Akhun”
    Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elayim

    “my excellent daughter”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Elbedri

    “full moon”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elder

    “people-lover; wealthy, ruler of the people; their spokesman”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Elem

    “most learned”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Elemgül

    “learned girl”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elemnisa

    “learned woman”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Elemshah

    “the name Elem with the epithet Shah”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Elemshir

    “the name Elem with the epithet Shir”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Eli

    “lofty, sublime”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Eli'axun

    “the name Eli with the suffix Akhun”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Eli'ekber

    “big Ali”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Eli'esgher

    “little Ali”
    From Arabic · 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

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Uyghur alphabets. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1372619492. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.