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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
6,733 names · page 169 of 281
- “the name Niyaz with the epithet Beg”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “needy one, servant; supplication; offering dedicated to God”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “Niyaz with the epithet 'flower'”From Persian · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who serves Muhammad”From Persian and Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “one who is in need of God”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “needy one, servant; supplication; offering dedicated to God”From Persian and Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who serves the master”From Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “will, intention, resolve”From Arabic · UyghurBoy1 syllableDocumented
- “order, regulation”From Arabic · Uyghur, KazakhBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Nezim with the epithet Muhammad”UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “principle and law of the faith”From Arabic · UyghurBoy4 syllablesDocumented
- “the order and rule of the state”From Arabic · UyghurBoy5 syllablesDocumented
- “lament; to lament”From Persian · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “pure woman”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “new, young”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “servant of religion”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “a kind of grain plant”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “Noqut with the epithet Beg”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “Noqut with the epithet Khan”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “early spring, new day, start of the year”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Newruz with the epithet Ay”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Newruz with the epithet Gül”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Newruz with the epithet Xan”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “grief, weeping”From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, AzerbaijaniBoy1 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):
- Arabic3157
- Persian1004
- Turkic873
- Hebrew45
- European11
- Azerbaijani5
- Uyghur5
Counted from 6733 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.
Uyghur names by meaning
Explore related languages
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.

