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 5 of 29

Sapaxan
“sincerity, purity, quality”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Saqi
“one who quenches thirst”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Saqin
“one who quenches thirst”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Saqiye
“female attendant; girl who pours wine; small stream”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sar
“name of a kind of bird”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented
Sara
“princess, noblewoman”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Sare
“happy; at ease, sweet”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sarghan
“name of a kind of plant”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sarigh
“yellow”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sarigh beg
“Sarigh 'yellow' with the epithet Beg”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Sarigh xan
“Sarigh 'yellow' with the epithet Khan”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Sarihe
“clear, bright, eloquent, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sarim
“filter, strainer”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sarixe
“clear, bright, eloquent, beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sariye
“happy; at ease, sweet”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Sarmusaq
“garlic”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Sarsal
“ferret (an animal)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Satabish
“name of a star”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Satigül
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Satiwaldi
“bought (from fate)”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Satixan
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sattar
“one who covers faults”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Satun
“garlic”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Saw
“fame, news”
Uyghur
1 syllableDocumented

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.