“beautiful, lovely girl”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
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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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- “light of perfection; son who has reached perfection, perfect man”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of perfection; son who has reached perfection, perfect man”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “be filled with light; become a handsome young man”From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, KyrgyzBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the praised one”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesEditorial
- “light of Muhammad”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of Muhammad”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nur with the epithet Mirza”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the praised one”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesEditorial
- “the name Nur with the suffix Nijat”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nur with the suffix nisa”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “moonlight; girl like the moon”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “girl like light”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of goodness; good son”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of purity; pure son”Uyghur, KazakhBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the Lord; son given by God my Lord”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of beauty, beauty of beauties, beautiful girl”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of beauty, beauty of beauties, beautiful girl”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “God's fortunate son”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “like light, light-pictured, resembling light”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “like light, light-pictured, resembling light”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “like light, light-pictured, resembling light”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nur with the suffix Tay”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “light of the good”UyghurBoy2 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
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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.