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 268 of 281

Yesire
“became easy; found fortune”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yesmin
“name of a kind of flower”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yesmine
“name of a kind of flower”
From Persian · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yéterxan
“enough now”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yétexan
“enough now”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yetime
“unique, one and only”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yetmish
“seventy (number)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yetmish qara
“Yetmish with the epithet 'black'”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Yidlagh
“fragrant”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yilghun
“tamarisk (plant name)”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yilpaghu
“brave, hero”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Yimit
“praiseworthy”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yinchu
“pearl”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yitik
“capable, skilful”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yitik er
“skilful person”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented

Yolbars
“tiger”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yolboldi
“may my son's affairs go smoothly”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yolchi
“leader, guide”
Uyghur, Uzbek
2 syllablesDocumented
Yoldash
“companion, fellow traveller”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yollugh
“blessed, fortunate, having a way”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yollugh tékin
“blessed prince whose way is open”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Yolwas
“tiger”
From Proto-Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yolwasjan
“tiger”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yolwasxan
“tiger”
Uyghur
Boy3 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.