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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279 names · page 8 of 12

Ziyam
“my light (my son, light of my eyes)”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ziyanahar
“sunshine”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziyaqemer
“moonlight”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziya'ulla
“light of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyawidin
“light of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziyawudun
“light of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Ziyawul
“light of God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyawulla
“light of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziyawush
“light of God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyaxan
“woman like light”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zöhre
“Venus”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zora
“Venus: beautiful, radiant star; morning star”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zoranisa
“bright star of women”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Zorem
“Venus: beautiful, radiant star; morning star”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zoridin
“triumph of the faith; flower of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Zorigül
“Venus: beautiful, radiant star; morning star”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zorixan
“Venus: beautiful, radiant star; morning star”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zorulla
“light of God, God's bright star”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Zoya
“life”
From European · Uyghur, Kazakh
Girl1 syllableEditorial
Zubeyde
“foam; a food made from cream”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zubeyre
“intelligent girl; little girl”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zuddin
“possessing faith, devout”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Zudun
“possessing faith, devout”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Zu'eqil
“intelligent, possessing reason, wise”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 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.