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 266 of 281

Yalin
“flame”
Turkish, Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yalqun
“flame of fire”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yandaq
“camelthorn”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yangan
“elephant (animal name)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yangan temür
“Yangan with the epithet 'iron'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Yantaq
“name of a wild plant”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yaqub
“later-born (second baby); male of a bird; servant of God”
From Hebrew · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yaqud
“ruby (a mineral)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yaqup
“one who follows, heel-holder”
From Hebrew · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yaqupjan
“later-born (second baby); male of a bird; servant of God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yaqut
“a kind of precious stone”
From Persian · Uyghur, Azerbaijani
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yaqutgül
“a kind of precious stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yaqutxan
“a kind of precious stone”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yar
“friend, companion; God”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Yaragh
“weapon”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented

Yaran
“friends, companions; friend”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yaratmish
“one who created”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Yarbexti
“may fortune be one's companion; fortunate”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yareli
“friend of Ali”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yaribexti
“may fortune be one's companion; fortunate”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Yari'eli
“friend of Ali”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yarigül
“Yari with the epithet 'flower'”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yarimuhemmed
“friend of Muhammad”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy5 syllablesDocumented
Yarisenem
“friend of the beautiful one”
From Persian and 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.