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 269 of 281

Yonus
“companion”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yonusjan
“companion”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yoqup
“later-born (second baby); male of a bird; servant of God”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yortugh
“companion”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yughrush
“name of an official post”
Uyghur
2 syllablesDocumented
Yügürgen
“runner; messenger”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented
Yüksek
“superior, tall, high, exalted”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yulduz
“girl like a star”
Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yultuz
“girl like a star”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yultuzay
“girl like a star”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Yultuzbék
“Yultuz 'star' with the epithet Bek”
From Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yultuznisa
“girl like a star”
From Turkic and Arabic · Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Yunus
“Jonah (name of the prophet)”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yunusbék
“Yunus with the epithet Bek”
From Hebrew and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Yurichi
“guide, traveller; to lead; attacker”
Uyghur
3 syllablesDocumented

Yurichi beg
“leader of the attackers”
Uyghur
4 syllablesDocumented
Yusra
“left side; ease, fortune”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Yusuf
“Joseph (the prophet's name)”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ýusup
“he will add”
From Hebrew · Uyghur, Turkmen
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Yüsüpjan
“dear Yüsüp”
From Hebrew and Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Yusur
“fortune, wealth”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Yusure
“fortune, prosperity”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zaban
“tongue, language”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Zahid
“pious, devout”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 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.