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

Browse Uzbek names

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Nigor
“beloved, beautiful one”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Nigora
“beloved, beautiful image”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nilufar
“water lily”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nishon
“sign, mark”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Niyoz
“need, longing, offering”
From Persian · Uzbek
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nizom
“order, system, regulation”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nizomiddin
“order of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Nodir
“rare, precious”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nodira
“rare, precious”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nodirbek
“rare lord”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Nosir
“helper”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nozanin
“delicate, graceful”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nozik
“delicate, fine, tender”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Nozim
“arranger; composer of verse”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Nozima
“one who orders, arranger”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Nuh
“grief, weeping”
From Hebrew · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nur
“light”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Nurafshon
“light-scattering, radiant”
From Arabic and Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nurali
“superior to all; son handsome as light”
Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Nurbek
“light + chief”
From Arabic and Turkic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Nuriddin
“light of the faith”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Nurillo
“light of God”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Nurjahon
“light of the world”
From Arabic and Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Nusrat
“help, victory”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Unisex2 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.