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

321 names · page 1 of 14

Tabdu
“one who finds”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tabi'
“follower”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tabijan
“follower”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ta'et
“worship, obedience, submission”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl1 syllableDocumented
Taha
“pure”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tahir
“pure, clean”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tahirə
“pure, chaste”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Taji
“wearer of a crown (royal headdress)”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tajidin
“crown of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Tajigül
“a woman worthy of being worn as a crown”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Tajinisa
“crown of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Tajir
“merchant, trader”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tajixan
“a woman worthy of being worn as a crown”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Talib
“seeker of knowledge; student”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Talii'
“risen; one whose luck comes; lucky star, good omen”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Talip
“seeker, student”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Talish
“seeker of knowledge; student”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tamur
“iron”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tangnur
“girl beautiful as the light of dawn”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Tangsuq
“exquisite, precious, rare”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tapinghu
“worthy of respect”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Taqet
“patience; strength, energy”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Taqetxan
“patient woman”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Taraxun
“stranger, one from outside; young man”
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.