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

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Semi
“one who listens, hearer”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Semi'e
“one who listens, hearer”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Semii'
“one who listens, hearer”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Semim
“sincere, just, pure, genuine”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Semimiyet
“purity, justice”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Semin
“value, precious; plump”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Səminə
“value, precious; plump”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Semini'ay
“value, precious; plump”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Seminnisa
“value, precious; plump”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Semir
“one who lives a comfortable life”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Semirdin
“one granted a comfortable life by the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Semire
“one who lives a comfortable life”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Semirulla
“one granted a comfortable life by God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Senem
“beautiful; idol (goddess)”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Senemay
“beautiful girl”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented

Senemgül
“beautiful; idol (goddess)”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Senet
“to craft; craft”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Senetayim
“Senet with the added element ayim”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Senetnisa
“skilful woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Senetulla
“God's craft”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Senewer
“name of a kind of pine”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Seniwer
“name of a kind of pine”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Seniye
“bright, shining”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sentulla
“God's craft”
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

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.