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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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
155 names · page 1 of 7
- “pure person of the faith”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Pakidin with the epithet Ay”From Persian and Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “pure in being”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “pure, pretty girl”From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, AzerbaijaniGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “axe”From Proto-Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “name of a mountain”From Persian and Turkic · Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “to build, establish; to vanish in the end”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “lamp, torch”From European · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “void, vacancy, vacuum, empty space”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “intellect, perception”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “sinless, pure person of the faith”UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “distinctive, different”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “horseman, brave, hero”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “beautiful, shining”From Persian · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “wise, great, skilful, sagacious; dignified, cautious”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “maize chaff left from grinding; pieces of maize stalk”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “a variant of the Persian "padishah" (king)”From Persian · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “mosquito + moon”From Uyghur · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “a variant of the Persian "padishah" (king)”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “a variant of the Persian "padishah" (king)”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “my pasha daughter”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “weaned (no longer nursing)”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Patime with the suffix nisa”UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “Patime's flower”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurGirl3 syllablesEditorial
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.
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.

