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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 259 of 281
- “Mirza with the epithet khan”From Turkic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “lady like my mother”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “lady like my mother”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “one upon whom the khan's gaze has fallen”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “woman like a khan”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “radiant, like light”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “radiant like the moon”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “endearing name: cherishing the daughter like a khan”From Turkic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “one who serves the khan”From Turkic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “khan of the Turks”Uyghur2 syllablesDocumented
- “child of a khan”From Turkic and Persian · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “daughter of a khan”From Turkic and Persian · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “child of a khan”From Turkic and Persian · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “Zuhre with the epithet khan”From Turkic and Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “one in awe of the faith, pious”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “protector, patron; eager; farmer”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “habit, distinctiveness, characteristic”From Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “ring; last, the end”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “youngest daughter”From Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “orator, speaker”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “last, final, youngest”UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “the last”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “last, final, youngest”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “Khatime with the epithet ay”From Arabic and Turkic · UyghurGirl3 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.

