Names of Uzbekistan UZ
The names that most distinguish Uzbekistan from the rest of the world are O`g`li, Жураев and Эргашев; names here are written in Cyrillic.
Written in Uzbek, Russian.
- Population
- 31M
- Official registers
- 2
- Name forms recorded
- 63K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Uzbekistan
6 naming traditions are in use in Uzbekistan, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Uzbekistan
Characteristic of Uzbekistan
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Uzbekistan holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Uzbekistan are written in Cyrillic (95%) and Latin (5%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Official registers
- Uzbekistan Ministry of Justice — top newborn names 20232023not a population count
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Counts: not recorded. given. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Annual press release from Ministry of Justice (which oversees civil registration). Top-10 given names per sex for newborns registered in 2023. Total 2023 births: 968,140. Names in Uzbek Latin script (official since 1993). Strong Muhammad/Islamic prefix pattern for male names: Muhammadali #1 (27,431), Mustafo #2 (22,880), Abdulloh #3 (18,116). Female: Soliha #1 (24,365), Yasmina #2 (19,911), Muslima #3 (15,918). 20 rows.
Last verified 2026-05-12.
- kun.uz coverage of Ministry of Justice surname frequency survey2023not a population count
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, via kun.uz. Counts: not recorded. surname. 10 forms. 2023. Licence: unknown.
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- How Russian Names Workpaper
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- A primer on Chechen namesweb
- Behind the Namenamesite
- Chechen languageencyclopaedia
- Chechen Namesnamesite
- Chechensencyclopaedia
- Circassian diasporaencyclopaedia
- Circassian Names (Jaimoukha, oocities)web
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- Circassians: Kinshipweb
- Crafting Identity: Surnames in the Turkish Republicweb
- Double Surnames Among Circassians in Homeland and Diaspora (Ionov 2024, Voprosy Onomastiki / Avesis)web
- Eastern Slavic naming customsencyclopaedia
- How Russian Patronymics Workweb
- Ingush peopleencyclopaedia
- Ingush submitted surnamesnamesite
- Kabardiansencyclopaedia
- Karakalpak languageencyclopaedia
- Karakalpak Submitted Namesnamesite
- Karakalpak Surnamesweb
- Karakalpaksencyclopaedia
- Karakalpaksweb
- Kazakh surnamesgenealogy
- Kazakhstan Naming Customsgenealogy
- Nakh languagesencyclopaedia
- Quora: Russified -ov/-ova names in the Caucasusweb
- Russian given nameencyclopaedia
- Russian surnameencyclopaedia
- Russification of Central Asian namesweb
- Slavic name suffixesencyclopaedia
- South Ossetia Adopts Law On Surnamesweb
- Surname Law (Turkey)encyclopaedia
- Teipencyclopaedia
- The de-Russification of surnames in Central Asiaweb
- Tribal Unions and Clansweb
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.
Questions
- Is there one naming system in Uzbekistan?
- No — 6 are described on this page (Uzbek and Russian, Karakalpak, Russian, Ossetian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Uzbekistan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/UZ (data snapshot 2026-09-12).