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

688 names · page 1 of 29

Saadet
“happiness, good fortune”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sabah
“dawn; sincerity, purity, quality”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sabahet
“beauty”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sabahi
“early riser”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sabahidin
“dawn of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sabiq
“former, previous”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sabir
“patient”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sabire
“patient, forbearing”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sabit
“firm, steadfast”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sachu
“tassel (of a scarf)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sada
“voice”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sadam
“one who strikes suddenly, striker”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadaqet
“friendship, loyalty”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sadet
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sadetgül
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Sadetxan
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sadigül
“one who brings things about”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sadilla
“God's fortunate one”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sadin
“happiness, luck”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadiq
“telling the truth, truthful, veracious”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadir
“one who brings things about”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sa'et
“time, hour”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl1 syllableDocumented
Sa'etnisa
“Sa'et with the added element nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sa'etxan
“time, hour”
Uyghur
Girl2 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.