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.
- Published names
- 6733
- Scripts in our data
- Latin, Arabic script
- ISO 639-1
- ug
Browse Uyghur names
6,733 names · page 62 of 281
- “successor”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “to place trust”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “intelligent”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “lady, madam; intelligent girl”From Arabic · UyghurGirl3 syllablesDocumented
- “white, moon-coloured”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “knowing God”From Arabic · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “turbulent river”From Arabic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “spring”From Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “turbulent river”UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “spring”UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “brave man”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “be a young man, grow into a man, live long”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “man strong as a bull”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “hero among men”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “sincere person, true man”From Turkic · UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “virtue”From Old Turkic · Turkish, UyghurBoy2 syllablesDocumented
- “virtuous”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “jewel, pearl”Uyghur3 syllablesDocumented
- “Erdeni with the epithet 'hero'”Uyghur5 syllablesDocumented
- “lady”Uyghur5 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Ereb with the epithet Shah”From Arabic and Persian · UyghurBoy3 syllablesDocumented
- “paradise, garden; forbidden, barred”From Arabic · UyghurGirl2 syllablesDocumented
- “sign of paradise”From Arabic · UyghurGirl4 syllablesDocumented
- “the name Erem with the epithet Khan”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.

