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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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Mirsalqiz
“dignified man”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Mirsalxan
“dignified man”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirsaqi
“the name Saqi with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirsayit
“fortunate man”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirse'id
“fortunate man”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirseper
“the name Seper with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirshad
“joyful man”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirshah
“man of quality”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirshahid
“the name Shahid with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirshayit
“the name Shahid with the epithet Mir”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirshehid
“the name Shehid with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirsherip
“great man”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirsultan
“the name Sultan with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirtahir
“the name Tahir with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirtalib
“the name Talib with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Mirteyyib
“good, excellent man”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirtömür
“man like iron”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirubeydulla
“the name Ubeydulla with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Mirul
“bey (man) loyal to God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirulla
“bey (man) loyal to God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirwapa
“faithful man”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirweli
“the name Weli with the epithet Mir”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Mirxan
“bey, emir, master, man”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirxelil
“the name Xelil with the epithet Mir”
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

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.