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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349 names · page 12 of 15

Hilalay
“new crescent moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hilalayim
“my daughter like the new moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hilalidin
“crescent of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Hilalnsa
“girl like the new moon”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hilalqiz
“girl like the new moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hilaxun
“Ali with the suffix Akhun”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Himad
“to praise”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Himit
“praiseworthy”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Himmet
“great will, zeal”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hisam
“sword”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hisamidin
“sword of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Hisar
“fortress, citadel, enclosure, siege”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hizebrulla
“lion of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Hömer
“flourishing, oasis, prosperity”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hör
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl1 syllableDocumented

Hörem
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Höri
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hörigül
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hörilla
“God's free person”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Hörilqa
“fairy encountered”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hörinsa
“woman like a houri”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hörinsaxan
“woman like a houri”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Höriqiz
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hörixan
“free, liberated; modelled on the houris of paradise; dark-eyed”
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.