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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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Zeydulla
“what God gave in excess”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Zeydun
“more, extra”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Zeyide
“more, extra”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeyinnisa
“adornment of women; beautiful woman”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeyinur
“adornment of light”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeynawidin
“adornment of the worshippers”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Zeynawul
“adornment of the worshippers”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Zeyne
“adorned, adornment, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeyneb
“name of a flower; in some legends, a bird”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeynep
“fragrant flowering tree”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Zeynidin
“adornment of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Zeynisa
“adornment of women; beautiful woman”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeynul
“adornment of God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Zeynulabidin
“adornment of the worshippers”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Zeynulla
“adornment of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Zeynur
“adornment of light”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeynurem
“adornment of light”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeytinur
“Zeytun with the epithet nur”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeytun
“olive, a fruit tree whose seeds yield oil”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zeytunay
“Zeytun with the epithet ay”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeytun'gül
“olive, a fruit tree whose seeds yield oil”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeytunnisa
“Zeytun with the added element nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Zeytunnur
“Zeytun with the epithet nur”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zeytunxan
“olive, a fruit tree whose seeds yield oil”
Uyghur
Girl3 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.