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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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Nurasim
“light of purity; pure son”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurazat
“light of freedom”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurbeg
“the name Nur with the epithet Beg”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nurbibe
“lady beautiful as light; young lady”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurbiye
“lady beautiful as light; young lady”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Nurbüwi
“lady beautiful as light; young lady”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurdin
“light of the faith”
Uyghur, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nurdölet
“prosperous son”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurdun
“light of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nurela
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurelaxan
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Nurelem
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurelemxan
“the name Elem with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Nureliqiz
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Nurelixan
“the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented

Nurem
“son handsome as light”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nurepshan
“scattered light”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nuresmen
“light spread across the sky; sunlight in the sky”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Nurexmet
“the name Ehmed with the epithet Nur”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurghali
“beloved son”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurghazi
“light of the ghazi; one who wages ghazat”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurghulam
“light of youth”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurgül
“girl like light”
From Arabic and Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Nurgüzel
“beautiful girl, the beauty among beauties”
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.