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 276 of 281

Ziwanisa
“beautiful woman, the beauty of women”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ziwanur
“Ziba with the epithet nur”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwaxan
“adorned, comely, beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwem
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ziwemxan
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwer
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ziwerixan
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ziwide
“foam; a food made from cream”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwidigül
“foam; a food made from cream”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ziwidixan
“foam; a food made from cream”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Ziwigül
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwilla
“written by God”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziwirixan
“beautiful”
Uyghur
Girl4 syllablesDocumented
Zixrulla
“light of God, God's bright star”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziya
“light, brightness”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented

Ziyad
“abundant, extra”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ziyade
“abundant, extra”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyadin
“light of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyaditulla
“God who bestows abundantly”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ziyadulla
“God who bestows abundantly”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ziyagul
“girl like light”
From Arabic and Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ziya'idin
“light of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ziyam
“my light (my son, light of my eyes)”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ziyanahar
“sunshine”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl3 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.