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

106 names · page 2 of 5

Ughraq
“wish, intention”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Ular
“a kind of partridge”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Ulich
“my son, my lamb”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Uliya
“exalted, high-ranking”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ulmet
“Ulugh with the epithet Muhammad”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ulpet
“friend, confidant”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ulpetnisa
“confidante woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh
“great, grand”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh atligh
“famous, renowned”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh bay
“very rich”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh beg
“great man”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh ilig
“great ruler”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Ulughmuhemmed
“Ulugh with the epithet Muhammad”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Ulughnisa
“great woman”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ulughnisaxan
“great woman”
Uyghur
Girl5 syllablesDocumented

Ulughniyaz
“Ulugh with the suffix Niyaz”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ulugh xan
“great king”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Ulughxan
“great woman”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ulus
“village; city; country, state; people, nation”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Ulus beg
“beg of the ulus (people)”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Uluxan
“great woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Uma
“guest who has come to the house”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Uma bike
“Uma with the epithet 'lady'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Uma oghul
“Uma with the epithet 'son'”
Uyghur
3 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.