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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

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Hurmat
“respect, honour”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Unisex2 syllablesDocumented
Hurriyat
“freedom, liberty”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Husan
“beauty”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Husanboy
“beautiful and rich”
From Arabic and Turkic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Husayn
“little handsome one”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Husniddin
“beauty of the faith”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Husniya
“beautiful, goodness”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Huvaydo
“evident, clear, manifest”
From Persian · Uzbek
Unisex3 syllablesDocumented
Ibo
“modesty, self-respect”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl2 syllablesDocumented
Ibodat
“worship, devotion”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
İbrahim
“Abraham (name of the patriarch and prophet)”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy3 syllablesDocumented
Ibrohim
“father of many”
From Hebrew · Uzbek
Boy3 syllablesEditorial
Idris
“sower of seed, farmer”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ikram
“honour, respect; honouring”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ikrom
“honouring, generosity”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented

İlham
“inspiration”
From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ilhom
“inspiration”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
İlyas
“Elijah (name of the prophet)”
From Arabic (from Greek and Hebrew) · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Ilyos
“my God is Yahweh”
From Hebrew · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Imom
“leader, imam”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Inobat
“turning back to God”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Girl3 syllablesDocumented
Inom
“gift, reward”
From Arabic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesDocumented
Inoq
“trusted companion, confidant”
From Turkic · Uzbek
Boy2 syllablesEditorial
Inoyat
“favour, kindness”
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

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.