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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Ramazon
“the month of Ramadan”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ramz
“sign, symbol”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Rashid
“wise, intelligent, mature; rightly guided”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rasul
“messenger”
From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rauf
“compassionate, merciful, gracious”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ravshan
“bright, clear”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Razzoq
“provider, sustainer”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Reşat
“right guidance”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rizo
“contentment”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Rizvon
“contentment, approval”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Ruslan
“lion”
From Proto-Turkic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Rustam
“mighty, strong-bodied”
From Persian · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sadriddin
“foremost of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Saʼdulla
“God's good fortune”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Safar
“the Islamic month of Safar”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

Sa'id
“victorious, famous; forearm; one who rises; helper”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Salim
“safe, secure”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Saloh
“goodness, righteousness”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Salohiddin
“righteousness of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Salom
“peace, greeting”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Samandar
“salamander”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Sanjar
“one who pierces”
From Turkic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sardor
“leader, commander”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Sardorbek
“leader lord”
From Persian and Turkic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial

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.