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

Browse Uzbek names

17 names

  • Ehson

    “kindness, benevolence”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Elbek

    “lord of the people”
    From Turkic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Eldor

    “ruler of the land”
    From Turkic and Persian · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Elmurod

    “the people's wish”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesEditorial

  • Elnura

    “light of the people”
    From Turkic and Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Elshod

    “joy of the people”
    From Turkic and Persian · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Elyor

    “friend of the people”
    From Turkic and Persian · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Emin

    “trustworthy; secure, sure”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Emine

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

  • Ergash

    “follower”
    From Turkic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Erka

    “pampered, darling”
    From Turkic · Uzbek
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Erkin

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

  • Erkinbek

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

  • Esh

    “companion, comrade”
    From Turkic · Uzbek
    Boy1 syllableDocumented

  • Eson

    “healthy, safe and well”
    From Turkic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Eʼtibor

    “respect, esteem, regard”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Eʼzoz

    “honour, respect”
    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

  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.