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 209 of 281

Sadaqet
“friendship, loyalty”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sadet
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Sadetgül
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sadetxan
“happiness, good fortune”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sadigül
“one who brings things about”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sadilla
“God's fortunate one”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sadin
“happiness, luck”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadiq
“telling the truth, truthful, veracious”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sadir
“one who brings things about”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sa'et
“time, hour”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl1 syllableDocumented
Sa'etnisa
“Sa'et with the added element nisa”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sa'etxan
“time, hour”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Saghligh (saqliq)
“health, well-being”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Saghun
“title given to the chiefs of the Qarluq tribe”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Sahabe
“friends, companions”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Sahabidin
“friends of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sahib
“owner, possessor; friend, companion”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sahibbeg
“bey of beys, hero among men”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sahibdil
“pure-hearted”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sahibe
“owner, possessor; friend, companion”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sahibjamal
“possessor of beauty, beautiful”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Sahibkamal
“possessor of perfection”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sahibnezer
“sharp, discerning, perceptive; one who wins favour”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sahibnisa
“friend of women”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 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.