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 72 of 281

Ghiyase
“helper, assistant; to rescue; ransom”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ghiyasidin
“helper of the faith”
From Arabic · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghiyaz
“helper, assistant; to rescue; ransom”
Uyghur
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ghiyazidin
“helper of the faith”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghopur
“forgiver, one who pardons”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ghujabdul
“Khoja with the epithet Abdulla”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujalim
“learned teacher”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujamberdi
“my Lord (God) granted a child”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ghujamkeldi
“a son has come into the world”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ghujamniyaz
“servant devoted to the master; one dedicated to the master”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujamyar
“may God be with our son”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujemet
“Khoja with the added element Ahmed”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghuji
“teacher, master; owner”
Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ghuji'abdulla
“Khoja with the epithet Abdulla”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ghujidul
“Khoja with the epithet Abdulla”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented

Ghujimuqbul
“Muqbul with the epithet khoja”
Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ghujiniyaz
“servant devoted to the master; one dedicated to the master”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujishah
“Khoja with the epithet shah”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghujixan
“teacher, master; owner”
Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghulam
“young man; young servant, slave”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ghulamidin
“servant of the faith”
From Persian and Arabic · Uyghur
Boy4 syllablesDocumented
Ghulamshad
“happy young man”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghulamshah
“servant of the Shah (God)”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ghulamzade
“descendant of Ghulam”
From Persian · Uyghur
Boy4 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.