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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 251 of 281
- “united, victorious”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “one who followed in the footsteps, successor; compassionate”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “man who followed in the footsteps”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “compassionate man”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “son who followed in the footsteps”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “respect, esteem”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “ancient name of Khotan”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “sage”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “wise man”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “wise prince”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “wise khan”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “almighty, strong”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “strong khan”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “wish, intention”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “a kind of partridge”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “my son, my lamb”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “exalted, high-ranking”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “Ulugh with the epithet Muhammad”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “friend, confidant”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “confidante woman”From Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “great, grand”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “famous, renowned”Uyghur4 syllablesDocumented
- “very rich”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “great man”Uyghur3 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):
- 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.

