“God's approval”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Language guide
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
Browse Uyghur names
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- “khan's son”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “Toyin with the epithet Khan”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who satisfied, made content”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “wild boar”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “man strong as a boar”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “prince strong as a boar”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “tiger”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “black; common people, nation; great, grand”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “great teacher”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “great deer”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “great bull”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “black-eyed girl”From Turkic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “big girl”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “name of a kind of bird (large bird)”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “great prince”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “Temür with the epithet 'black, great'”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “great monk”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “great khan, khan of the people”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “swallow (bird)”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “reader (one who recites)”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “Qari with the epithet haji”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “firm, solid”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “reader (one who recites)”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl3 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.