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

26 names · page 1 of 2

Zafar
“victory”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Zahiriddin
“supporter of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Zahro
“radiant, bright”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Zakariyo
“God remembers”
From Hebrew · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Zamira
“conscience, heart”
From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Zarafshon
“scattering gold”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Zarif
“graceful, witty”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Zarifa
“graceful, elegant”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Zarina
“golden”
From Persian · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Zarnigor
“golden beauty”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Zaynab
“fragrant flowering tree”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Zayniddin
“ornament of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Zebo
“beautiful”
From Persian · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Zebuniso
“ornament of women”
From Persian and Arabic · Uzbek
Girl4 syllablesEditorial
Zilola
“pure, cool water”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Ziya
“light, brightness”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Ziynat
“adornment”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ziyoda
“abundant, more”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Ziyovuddin
“light of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Zohid
“ascetic, pious”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Zokir
“one who remembers God”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Zubayda
“choice cream, elite”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Zuhra
“brightness; the planet Venus”
From Arabic · Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Bashkir
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Zulayho
“fair, radiant”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 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.