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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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277 names · page 3 of 12

  • Qariye

    “reader (one who recites)”
    From Arabic · Uyghur
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qarlighach

    “swallow (bird)”
    From Turkic · Uyghur
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Qarluq

    “one of the Uyghur tribes”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qarluq beg

    “beg of the Qarluqs”
    Uyghur
    3 syllablesDocumented

  • Qarshi

    “palace, court; to fight”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qarughchi

    “guard”
    Uyghur
    3 syllablesDocumented

  • Qasım

    “one who distributes”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Qasuq

    “bark, tree bark; nail”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qasuq beg

    “Qasuq with the epithet Beg”
    Uyghur
    3 syllablesDocumented

  • Qatmish

    “hardened, firm, solid”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qawshut

    “bring together, unite”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qawul

    “one who accepts; capable”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qawush

    “to agree, to unite”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qawut

    “happiness; pride”
    Uyghur
    2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qawuz

    “one who makes all bow; taker of souls; captor”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qaxar

    “wrathful, valiant, compeller of all”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qay

    “name of a tribe”
    Uyghur, Azerbaijani
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Qayaq

    “cream”
    Uyghur
    1 syllableDocumented

  • Qayaq bike

    “lady like cream”
    Uyghur
    3 syllablesDocumented

  • Qayidin

    “commander, leader of the faith”
    Uyghur
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Qayil

    “speaker, orator”
    Uyghur
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Qayim

    “one who stands ready”
    Uyghur
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Qayimmolla

    “Qa'im with the epithet mewla”
    Uyghur
    Boy3 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.