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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
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- “a girl was born; it became a girl”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “ram”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “Qochqar 'ram' with the epithet 'rich'”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “prince like a ram”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “supporter”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “kindness”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “neighbour”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “dignity, prestige”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “respected beg”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “huge, grand, great”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “eldest son”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “great khan”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “born a twin, companion of a twin”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “Muhammad with the epithet qosh”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “Muhammad with the epithet qosh”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “lamb; beloved”Uyghur, Uzbek2 syllablesDocumented
- “beloved beg”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “beloved lady”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “minaret of the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “great, pure”From Arabic · Uyghur, UzbekBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “power of God”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “power, capacity, faculty”From Arabic · Uyghur, AzerbaijaniBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “power of women”From Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “power of God”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 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
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.

