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 243 of 281

Tolumlugh
“armed”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Tolun
“full, matured”
Turkish, Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tolunay
“girl beautiful as the full moon”
From Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Toluner
“mature man”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Toluy
“sea”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tömür
“name of a metal”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Tömürxan
“the name Tömür with the epithet Khan”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Tonga
“an animal of the leopard family”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Tonga alip er
“man brave as a leopard”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Tongabeg
“man like a leopard”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Tonga tékin
“prince like a leopard”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Tongaxan
“khan brave as a leopard”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Toqish
“clash, battle, war”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Toqluq
“standard-bearer”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Toqluq temür
“Toqluq with the epithet 'iron'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented

Toqniyaz
“the name Niyaz with the epithet Toq”
From Turkic and Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Toqtamish
“one who stayed, settled”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Toqti
“stayed, stopped”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Toqti bike
“lady who stayed”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Töre
“noble son, aristocrat, little master, little ishan”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Törem
“our master, our noble son”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Töremay
“the name Törem with the epithet Ay”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Torghay
“a kind of bird that sings beautifully at dawn”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Torqu
“silk”
Uyghur
2 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.