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

6,733 names · page 196 of 281

Qubbidin
“minaret of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Quddus
“great, pure”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qudirtul
“power of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qüdrət
“power, capacity, faculty”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qudretnisa
“power of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qudritulla
“power of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Qughursu
“name of one of the Uyghur tribes”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Qughursu altun
“Altun with the epithet Qughursu”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Qulabuz
“guide, leader”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Qulan
“name of an animal”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Qulibeg
“servant of the beg”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qulnezer
“servant who has met with the gaze”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qulun
“name of an animal (foal)”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qulun öge
“Qulun with the epithet 'wise'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Qulun qara
“big foal”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented

Qulxuaje
“servant of the master, servant dedicated to the master”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Qumri
“turtle dove”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Qumrinisa
“Qumri with the added element nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Qumut
“to enliven, to revive”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Qumut chechek
“Qumut with the epithet 'flower'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Qunchuy
“princess”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Qunduz
“a kind of precious water animal”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Qunduzay
“girl precious as a qunduz”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Quntuz
“beaver (animal name)”
Uyghur
Girl2 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.