“honour, respect; honouring”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
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
229 names · page 2 of 10
- “honour of the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “respect, honour”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “domestic animal”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “people, realm, state, nation; ruler”Uyghur1 syllableDocumented
- “one who brings remedy to the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who took the realm”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “good tidings; feeling”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “exalted in rule”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “beg who raised up the people”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “prince who raised up the people”Uyghur5 syllablesDocumented
- “Ali with the suffix Akhun”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “tiger of the people”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “Bugha with the epithet 'people'”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “envoy; ancient name of the city of Khotan”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “envoy beg”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “true son of the people”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “great envoy”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “Qara Baqshi with the epithet 'envoy'”Uyghur6 syllablesDocumented
- “lover of the people; wealthy; ruler of the people”From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur, Tatar, BashkirBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “devoted to the people”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “founded the state, governed the people”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “wise khan who governed the people”Uyghur7 syllablesDocumented
- “prince who founded the state”Uyghur5 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.
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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.