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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763 names · page 11 of 32

Hanifa
“upright in faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial
Hasan
“good; handsome, beautiful”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hasanboy
“good and rich”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Hasson
“handsome, excellent”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Havo
“living, life”
From Hebrew · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Haydar
“lion”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hayit
“festival, holiday”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy1 syllableDocumented
Hayitboy
“born at the festival”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hayot
“life”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Unisex1 syllableDocumented
Hidoyat
“guidance”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hikmat
“wisdom”
From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hikmatulla
“God's wisdom”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy4 syllablesEditorial
Hikoyat
“story, tale”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hilol
“crescent, new moon”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hilola
“crescent moon”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesEditorial

Hojiya
“woman pilgrim to Mecca”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hokim
“ruler, governor”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Horun
“exalted, lofty”
From Hebrew · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hoshim
“one who breaks bread; generous”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Hoshiya
“margin, border”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Hosil
“result, yield”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Hosila
“harvest, fruit”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Hulkar
“the Pleiades”
From Turkic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesEditorial
Humoyun
“auspicious, royal”
From Persian · 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.