Uygur

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Uyghur (ethnic group)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʊjɡˈʊr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Uygur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 29K
  • CNChina≈1 in 51K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈27,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
103 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

UygurLatin(measured from records)
УйгурCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

Uyghur (ethnic group)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Uygur 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.

Where Uygur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈27,000 est.≈1 in 51K—Uygur4
TR Türkiye#623≈15,000 est.≈1 in 5.4K—Uygur85
DE Germany—≈470 est.≈1 in 171K—Uygur51
EG Egypt—≈300 est.≈1 in 352K—Uygur7
SE Sweden—1261 in 81K126Uygur14
AT Austria—≈81 est.≈1 in 109K—Uygur8
CY Cyprus—≈43 est.≈1 in 29K—Uygur8

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). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Uygur is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye

    Also written Uyğur

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Uyğur

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Uyğur

  • Bulgarian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Uyğur

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Uyğur

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Uygur 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 Turkish, Uygar, medeni.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Nermi Uygur, b. 1925Zeki Uygur, b. 1926Nejat Uygur, b. 1927Burhan Uygur, b. 1940Süheyl Uygur, b. 1958Behzat Uygur, b. 1963Cenk Uygur, b. 1970Barış Uygur, b. 1978Selin Uygur, b. 1992Burak Uygur, b. 1995

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSayın Uygur Bey,Dear Uygur Bey, (English)
InformalMerhaba Uygur,Hi Uygur, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Uygur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—126#5,997

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Uygur mean, and where does it come from?
Uyghur (ethnic group) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Uygur?
In the etymology graph, Uyghur is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Uygur?
A machine transcription gives /ʊjɡˈʊr/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Uygur have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Uygur in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uygur.
How common is the name Uygur?
In Sweden, the national register counted 126 people named Uygur, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
How common is Uygur compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Uygur is the 623rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Uygur” — the 623rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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