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 225 of 281

Shamurat
“Murad with the epithet shah”
Uyghur, Kazakh
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shanaz
“handsome, beautiful young man”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shanezer
“one under the gaze of the Shah (God)”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shaniyaz
“servant who dedicated himself to the Shah (God)”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shapa'et
“Shafa'a: intercession”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shaqari
“Qari with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sharap
“greatness, pride, value; superiority”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Sharapet
“greatness, grandeur, honour”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Sharapidin
“greatness of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sharapitulla
“greatness of God”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Shara'udin
“the sharia (law) of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sharawidin
“the sharia (law) of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Sharexman
“Rahman with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sharulla
“fame of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shatgül
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented

Shatliqyar
“may happiness be his companion”
From Persian and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Shatnisa
“joyful, happy woman”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shatqiz
“happy, happiness; singer”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shatyar
“may happiness be his companion”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Shawan
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Shawan'gül
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shawanqiz
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shawanxan
“born in the month of Sha'ban”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Shawaz
“hawk”
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.