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

277 names · page 5 of 12

Qehrinisa
“strength and wrath of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qelbi'ay
“whose heart is bright and pure as the moon”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Qelbidin
“heart of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qelbinisa
“heart of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qelbinur
“radiant-hearted, bright”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qelem
“cut; made into a cutting”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qelemnisa
“cut; made into a cutting”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qelemshah
“Qelem with the epithet shah”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qelemshir
“master of the pen, one who excels with the pen”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qelemxan
“Qelem with the epithet khan”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qembergül
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemberxan
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemer
“moon”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Qemeray
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemereli
“Qemer with the added element Ali”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented

Qemergül
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemeriye
“lunar; moon-like; lunar calendar”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemerjan
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qemernisa
“woman beautiful as the moon”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qemerxan
“moon (the moon in the sky)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemire
“moonlit”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Qemiridin
“moon of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qemirulla
“God's one, beautiful as the moon”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qemra
“moonlight”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 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

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.