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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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401 names · page 13 of 17

  • Nurhayat

    “light of life”
    Turkish, Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri

    “luminous”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'adil

    “light of justice”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'ali

    “superior to all; son handsome as light”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'alim

    “light of the scholar”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'aliye

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

  • Nuri'aman

    “light of peace”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'amed

    “light of fortune”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'amidin

    “the faith's light of fortune”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'asim

    “light of purity; pure son”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'asman

    “light spread across the sky; sunlight in the sky”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'ay

    “moonlight”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'azad

    “light of freedom”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuricheshme

    “light of my eyes”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuridin

    “light of the faith”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuridölet

    “prosperous son”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'ehmed

    “the name Ehmed with the epithet Nur”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'ela

    “highest, superior, lofty; the name Ela with the epithet Nur”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'elem

    “most learned; the name Elem with the epithet Nur”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'emine

    “the name Emine with the epithet Nur”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nuri'epshan

    “scattered light”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurighali

    “beloved son”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurighazi

    “light of the ghazi; one who wages ghazat”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Nurighulam

    “light of youth”
    From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
    Boy4 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.