Language guide

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: 763
Scripts in our data: Latin, Cyrillic
ISO 639-1: uz

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Majid
“outstanding, famous”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Malik
“king, sovereign, monarch”
From Arabic · Turkish, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mamur
“prosperity, flourishing”
Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mansur
“victorious, aided”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Maqsud
“aim, purpose”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mardon
“brave men”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Maʼruf
“well-known, kindly”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Masʼud
“fortunate, happy”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Masum
“innocent, sinless”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Matlab
“aim, purpose, desire”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mavlud
“newborn, born”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirjalol
“lord of majesty”
From Persian and Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Mirza
“scribe; khan, bey; scholar, gentleman, teacher, master”
From Persian · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mirzo
“prince, learned man”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Moʻmin
“believer”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Muhammad
“praised”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Muhammadali
“praised and exalted”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy5 syllablesEditorial
Muharram
“sacred; born in Muharram”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Muhib
“lover, devotee, friend”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhiddin
“reviver of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Muhit
“the one who governs all”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Muhsin
“benefactor, doer of good”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Mukammal
“perfect, complete”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented
Mumtoz
“distinguished, excellent”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 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
498
Persian
204
Turkic
98
Hebrew
24
Uzbek
7
Greek
5
Mongolic
4

Counted from 763 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 · 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. Uzbek alphabet. Wikimedia Foundation, revision 1382057190. Accessed 2026-10-28. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.