Uyghur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan
Uyghur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.2Kas Uygur(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 81Kas Uygur
- FIFinland1 in 169Kas Uygur
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Uyghur itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 named Uygur, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est., as Uygur
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Uygur in TR Türkiye, US United States, DE Germany and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Uyghur is found
(measured from records)Uyghur counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #623 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Uygur | 85 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Uygur | 51 |
| SE Sweden | — | 126as Uygur | 1 in 81K | 126 | Uygur | 14 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Uygur | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Uygur | 103 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Uygur | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Uygur | 8 |
| FI Finland | — | 33as Uygur | 1 in 169K | 33 | Uygur | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Uyghur is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Uyghur, Latin (ULY) transcription of ئۇيغۇر (uyghur)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Uyghur mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Uyghur?
- In the etymology graph, Uygur is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Uyghur?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Uygur in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Uyghur?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 126 people named Uygur, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Uyghur compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Uyghur is the 623rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uyghurThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Uyghur” — the 623rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.