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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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763 names · page 3 of 32

  • Ahror

    “free, noble ones”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Akbar

    “greatest”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Äkmäl

    “most perfect”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Akobir

    “the greatest ones”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Akram

    “most generous”
    From Arabic · Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Aʼlam

    “most knowledgeable”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Ali

    “high, exalted”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Alijon

    “soul”
    From Uzbek · Uzbek
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Alisher

    “Ali + lion”
    From Persian (from Arabic and Persian · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Boy3 syllablesDocumented

  • Aliya

    “exalted, noble”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl2 syllablesEditorial

  • Allaberdi

    “son given by God”
    From Arabic and Turkic · Uyghur, Uzbek, Turkmen
    Boy4 syllablesDocumented

  • Aʼlo

    “excellent, supreme”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Unisex2 syllablesDocumented

  • Amin

    “trustworthy, faithful”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar
    Boy2 syllablesEditorial

  • Amina

    “trustworthy, safe”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Amine

    “safe, secure (feminine)”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Amir

    “flourishing, one who brings prosperity; commander, one who orders”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Amira

    “princess”
    From Arabic · Kazakh, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Anbar

    “ambergris, fragrant substance”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Anor

    “pomegranate”
    From Persian · Uzbek
    Girl2 syllablesDocumented

  • Anora

    “pomegranate”
    From Persian · Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesEditorial

  • Anvar

    “brighter, most radiant”
    From Arabic · Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Aqida

    “belief, creed”
    From Arabic · Uzbek
    Girl3 syllablesDocumented

  • Arif

    “knowing”
    From Arabic · Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Bashkir
    Boy2 syllablesDocumented

  • Arslan

    “lion”
    From Proto-Turkic · Turkish, Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Bashkir
    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.