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Uzbek Names: Meanings, Origins & Traditions

Uzbek names are listed here in the Uzbek Latin alphabet, reintroduced officially in 1993, and in Cyrillic where a source records that form. Uzbek and Uyghur are both Karluk languages, and many names have related forms in the two languages, but this site only links them when a source does. Arabic and Persian names are frequent, and Uzbek spellings often show their own vowels, for example Oybek beside Kazakh and Kyrgyz Айбек (Aybek).
Oʻzbekcha
Karluk branch of the Turkic language family
Published names
44
Scripts in our data
Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1
uz

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44 names · page 1 of 2

  • Alijon

    “soul”
    From Uzbek · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Alisher

    “Ali + lion”
    From Persian (from Arabic and Persian · Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Amine

    “safe, secure (feminine)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Arif

    “knowing”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Arslan

    “lion”
    From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aybek

    “moon + lord”
    From Turkic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aziz

    “powerful, mighty; dear, precious”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Azizbek

    “dear + lord”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Bekobod

    “a title of local officials, beg + prosperous”
    From Uzbek · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Emine

    “trustworthy, faithful (feminine)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Erkin

    “free, independent”
    From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Erkinbek

    “free + a title of local officials, beg”
    From Uzbek · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Fazıl

    “eminent, excellent (person)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Gülbahar

    “rose (flower) + spring”
    From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Gulnar

    “pomegranate flower”
    From Persian · Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Hamdam

    “companion, intimate friend”
    From Persian · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Hasan

    “good; handsome, beautiful”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İbrahim

    “Abraham (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Ikram

    “honour, respect; honouring”
    From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İlham

    “inspiration”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İlyas

    “Elijah (name of the prophet)”
    From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İshak

    “Isaac (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
    From Arabic (from Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • İslam

    “Islam; submission to God”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Islombek

    “Islam + a title of local officials, beg”
    From Uzbek · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

How Uzbek names are written

Uzbekistan reintroduced a Latin alphabet in 1993, alongside the Cyrillic alphabet used since 1940, and both remain in everyday use. Letters with apostrophe-like marks, oʻ and gʻ, are part of the spelling. Uzbeks in Afghanistan and some in China write in Arabic-based scripts.

Where Uzbek names come from

A name used in Uzbek is not automatically Uzbek in origin. Here is how the documented origins of the Uzbek names published so far break down (a name with elements from two languages counts under both):

  • Arabic
    27
  • Persian
    10
  • Uzbek
    6
  • Turkic
    5
  • Hebrew
    4
  • Bashkir
    1
  • Greek
    1

Counted from 44 published entries. Each name page explains its own etymology with sources.

Uzbek names by meaning

Uzbek belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic languages, together with Uyghur. 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

References for this page

  1. Wikipedia contributors. Turkic languages. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1377797900. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
  2. Wikipedia contributors. Uzbek alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1382057190. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.