What you need to know about Uzbek male names and how to choose the best for your son. Traditional Uzbek names

Uzbek names amaze with their diversity, bizarre pattern of construction and multifaceted meaning. To some, these names may seem exotic and unusual. Their true meaning becomes clear if one considers the history of the origin of Uzbek names as a reflection of the way of life, traditions and customs of the people.

Folk Uzbek names.

The Uzbeks believed that the name is an omen. Therefore, parents have always tried to give their children positive qualities through the name - Karim (generous, noble), Sabir (hardy, patient), Kamil (perfect). Meaning women's Uzbek names usually associated with beauty, grace and tenderness Nafisa (graceful), Dilbar (charming). Some female names originated from the names of flowers Lola (tulip), Nilufar (lotus), Guli (flower). Often found male Uzbek names with meaning courage and strength Temur (iron), Kudrat (power), Arslan (lion).

Popular beliefs became the basis for the emergence of a certain group of names. For example, if only girls were born in the family, then in anticipation of an heir, the daughters were given such names - Ugiloy (son), Ulzhan (boy after girl), Kizlarbas (enough girls). At a time when infant mortality was very high, children were often given spell names Turdi (stay), Tursun (let them stay), Ulmas (do not die). And the twins were traditionally called Hassan and Husan, Fatima and Zuhra.

Muslim names in Uzbekistan.

Since the 8th century, Islam has become the dominant religion in the territory. Central Asia. Islam brought a huge number of Arabic, Iranian, Greek and Hebrew names to the Uzbek names - Ibrahim (Abraham), Yusuf (Joseph), Ishmael (Ismoil), Ishak (Isaac), Yakub (Yakov), Yunus (Jonah), Iskander (Alexander) . Over time, they almost completely replaced the Turkic names. The most common names were Muhammad and Fatima. Religious names Abdurashid (slave of the Wise), Abdullah (slave of Allah), Abdurrahman (slave of the Merciful), Nurdin (light of faith), Fathullah (victory of Allah) were originally the privilege of the clergy and nobility.

Modern Uzbek names.

In modern Uzbekistan, the diversity of names is preserved, although their number has significantly decreased. Rarely do parents choose religious names for their children. Many old names get a second life. For example, the name Alisher is not perceived as the original "Lion Ali", but is associated with Alisher Navoi. Increasingly, the choice of a name is influenced by the popularity of a particular name. Boys are often called Bakhtiyar (happy), Bahodir (hero). And among the female names, Dilfuza, Gulchehra, Gulnara and Zamira are considered fashionable.

What do you think, what are the most common male names in Uzbekistan? What is the most common name given by parents today?

The site factorname.ru presented statistics of companies engaged in marketing research in order to identify consumer preferences of the population, from which data on the most popular names were extracted.

The data of about 5 thousand people were analyzed, as a result of which the most popular names among young people (from 17 to 25 years old) were identified. In general, the analysis revealed more than 200 varieties of names. The analysis of popular names was also complicated by the large number of repeated names with prefixes or additions, such as BEK, ABDU or JON. For example, the name Sardor is available in 3 versions - Sardor, Sardorbek, Mirsardor or Sardorjon (that's all different names, but they were treated as one name in statistics). That is, any name can potentially be duplicated several times in one form or another. As an example, we can cite such names as: Aziz, Azizbek, Abdulaziz, Azizjon, Orif, Orifjon, Sanjarbek, Sanjarhuzha, Sanjar, Khushruz, Khushroz, etc.

It should be noted that, contrary to expectations, the popular name Aziz was not in the top ten popular names - he has 16th place (out of 200).

by the most popular name the male Uzbek name Sardor can be considered, he has the first place. A newborn child was named Sardor by about 25 per thousand children. It is not without reason that the meaning of the name Sardor means "leader", "leader". Here are the ranking results:

20 most popular names:

The name Bekzod took second place. If the name Sardor is repeated 25 times in one thousand, then the name Bekzod can be found 13/1000. Doston (Duston) and Sherzod follow.

Contrary to popular belief about the popularity of the name Aziz, it turned out that it is not in the first place. However, it is in the top twenty. In the ranking, the name "Aziz" (meaning "respected") took 16th place.

The top 20 most popular names are famous people from the history of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, including: Alisher Navoi, Mirzo Ulugbek, Zahiriddin Babur, etc.

Here's how the list of popular male names goes on:

The name Mashkhur ("celebrity") turned out to be unpopular, on the contrary, one of the rarest.

Modern Uzbek names are represented by a large number of components that are widely used. Among them are such components as: zhon, fight, yor, bek, world, abdu, etc. In connection with this, relatively new names constantly appear. Let's take the name Umid as an example, some call the child Umidjon, Umidboy. The common name Orif, there is also a common name Orifjon.

The most popular search engines in the world and the CIS countries (Google.com and Yandex.Ru) made it possible to identify the largest requests from Internet users for Uzbek male names, which can rightfully be considered a "prize audience sympathy".

In the first place was the name Rustam - the name Rustam means "courage", "courage" and "strength". The names of Azamat, Anvar, Nodir and Bakhtiyor follow.

The following names are most searched for:

The table shows the most frequently searched male names, the rating was compiled on the basis of statistical search data for all Uzbek names.

And here is an incomplete list of the most rare names. Some of the names sound very nice to the ear:

According to the results statistical processing became known the longest male name - Shermukhammadzhuma.

The modern official anthroponymic model of Uzbeks is trinomial: personal (individual) name, patronymic, surname. But the names corresponding to the full model are used only in official documents and. only in some cases; more often, even in documents, the first two elements are replaced by initials.

The personal (individual) name from antiquity and until recently served as virtually the only anthroponym of the Uzbeks; only sometimes it was accompanied by the name of the father or the name of the place of origin. Since the 8th century, the undivided domination of Islam in the territory of Central Asia has brought a lot of Muslim names, mostly Arabic, as well as many Iranian ones, through the Arabic language of Hebrew (Abraham - Ibrahim, Joseph - Yusuf) and Greek (Alexander - Iskander). Islam pushed back the names of Turkic origin, but could not destroy them: at the beginning of our century, they were worn by about 5% of Uzbeks. Many of the names that came with Islam were associated with religious ideas, heroes of Koranic stories. The most common names were Muhammad (the name of the founder of the Muslim religion), Fatima (the name of the daughter of Muhammad). Compound names spread, for example: Muhammadkarim, Tursunmurad.

Especially often there were names with the first component abd- (Arabic “slave”) and numerous epithets of Allah (Abdurashid “slave of the Wise”, Abdurahim “slave of the Merciful”), with the second component -din “religion”, “faith” or -ulla, “ Allah" (Saifuddin "the sword of religion", Inayatullah "the mercy of Allah"). Initially, these names were the privilege of the clergy and nobility.
A large group consisted of spell names (wishes to a child), for example, male Shukhrat “glory”, Mansur “winner”, female Saodat “happiness”, Zumrad “emerald”. Often the names contained metaphors; so, male names were associated with the concepts of strength, militancy, valor (Asad "lion"), and female names were associated with ideas of beauty and tenderness (Lolagul - tulip flower "). Many names indicated the place, time, circumstances of the birth of the child. Often given "repulsive" names, that is, names with a derogatory meaning, with the aim of frightening or deceiving "evil spirits", especially in those families where children often died. The custom was strictly observed to name the twins Hassan and Hussein (if both are boys), Fatima and Zuhra (if both are girls), Hasan and Zuhra (if a boy and a girl), Fatima and Hussein (if a girl and a boy). The names of the Uzbeks did not have diminutives and other derivative forms. Emotional coloring was given by the addition of -jon (Iranian jan "soul").

Major changes are taking place in the modern name list of Uzbeks. First of all, the grandiose "range" of names is being reduced, although even today the diversity of names is still significant.
Most deep changes occur not in the list of names, but in the frequency of each name. The frequency of names associated with religious themes is decreasing: the frequency of the names Muhammad, Fatima has significantly decreased; almost completely disappeared such names as Khudayberdi "God gave", guard Italmas "the dog will not take". Compound names became rare. The use of names with abd-, -din, -ulla has been greatly reduced. Components of female names Gul and. oh, they are still quite frequent, but they have become only auxiliary name-forming elements, since they are largely desemantized, having lost their original meanings “flower”, “moon”, and are combined with many bases.

Many names, having lost their etymological meanings to a certain extent, acquire new meaning. Thus, the name Alisher is perceived not as "lion Ali" (Iranian sher "lion", Ali is the name of Muhammad's son-in-law), but is associated only with Alisher Navoi. The old female name Zamira, which is mistakenly associated with the Russian words "for peace", has become common.
IN Lately the process of formation of a single Uzbek personal name is activated; in 1969-1971, almost everywhere, Uzbek boys most often received the names Bakhtiyar "happy" and Bahodir "hero", less often - Shukhrat, but in the districts of the Tashkent region - Ravshan, in some districts of the Bukhara region - Ulugbek. The process of consolidation in the field of female names is going on more slowly, but even here there are common trends, although regional differences are still strong: in Samarkand and in the Bukhara region, the first place was taken by the name Dilfuza, and in Tashkent - Gulchekhra, in Ferghana - it varies by region, but more often - Odiha, among the Uzbeks of southern Kazakhstan - Barno, among the Uzbeks of Kyrgyzstan (Leylak district) - Gulnara. Turkic names Erkin "free", Yuldash "comrade" became frequent. Behind last years new names came to the Uzbeks, which were impossible for them before: borrowed from Russian (Oleg, Irina, Tamara) or Western European (Ernst, Louise, Clara) anthroponymy. They are still rare, but appear not only in cities, but also in villages.

Unfortunately, new names are not always successful. So, in the Kashka-Darya region, the name of the boy Akhmed-Zagotskot (given in honor of the institution where the father works), in the Nurata district of the Samarkand region in 1965 the boy received the name Gagarin (the Russian surname is perceived as individual name); sometimes Uzbeks take Russians as a full (passport) name diminutive forms names; So, Sonya, Ira are registered.

There are significant changes in the form of names. In the Turkic languages ​​there is no category of grammatical gender, therefore male and female names did not differ in form. Now that a woman is both in production and in public life, and came out of isolation in everyday life, the mixing of male and female names creates confusion. The formal delimitation of names according to the Russian model refers the names to the consonant to masculine, to the vowel -a - to feminine. At the same time, the following is observed: names that do not meet this norm are becoming obsolete, those corresponding to it are becoming more frequent; disappears -a in male names, appears -a in female.

Patronymic in the past was not obligatory for Uzbeks, but was sometimes used in the following forms: “Turkic ugyl “son” or kyz “daughter” with the father’s previous name” (Ahmed ugyl son of Ahmed”, Ahmed kyz “daughter of Ahmed”) or “Iranian zade "born", "child" also preceded by the father's name. Now the name of the father must be entered in the birth certificate and then in the passport. Among the intelligentsia, the use of patronymics begins to penetrate into everyday communication (especially in cities).

Modern Uzbek names have Turkic and Iranian roots. The spread of Islam in Asian countries led to the modification of traditional names. Thus, under the influence of the Arabs, new names appeared in the Uzbek language: Yunus, Yakub, Ismail (not forgotten today). And after a thorough acquaintance with the Koran, the names of Fathullah, Karim, Abdullah arose and quickly gained popularity. But traditional Uzbek names also remained.

If a boy is born immediately circumcised, he is usually called Sunnat. If a child has a lot of pronounced moles, he was called Holmamat. Ancient traditions prescribe to call the twin boys the names of Hasan and Husan, and the twin girls - Fotima and Zuhra. According to the custom in Uzbekistan, the name of the baby is chosen not by the parents, but by the grandparents on the paternal line. In many ways, it is this factor that has a beneficial effect and helps to preserve ancient customs.

Male modern Uzbek names

• Avlod - "descendant". Usually this name is given to a long-awaited child.
• Abror - "master". The bearer of this name is a called leader. He will cope with any leadership position, and at the same time will take care of his subordinates.
• Aziz - "revered", "dear".
• Botir - "hero". Distinctive feature bearers of this name - good health and powerful physique.
• Bened - "foundation". The owners of this name clearly know what they want from life. They are homely and thorough.
• Doston is a legend.
• Nodir - "rare". Usually the owners of this name combine in their character all the most worthy traits: nobility, courage and respect for elders.
• Shohruh - "the soul of Khan".

Female modern Uzbek names

• Asmira is the "chief princess". In terms of charm and femininity, the bearers of this name have no equal.
• Guldasta - "bouquet". The owners of this name are multifaceted and comprehensively developed.
• Dinora - "gold coin".
• Zilola - "lotus flower".
• Zuhra - "beautiful", "radiant".
• Intizora - "long-awaited." Usually this name is given to the long-awaited daughter.
• Nigora - "beloved". It is impossible not to love a woman with this name: she will become the decoration of the house and the pride of her husband.
• Farkhunda - "happy."

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Uzbekistan, Tashkent - AN site. When choosing a name for a child, many parents want it to be not only harmonious, combined with patronymic, traditions and customs, but also have a certain popularity among society. Someone wants to name a child rare name, and someone unusual, or popular. In this connection, we consider it interesting to present to your attention an analysis of the most popular male names in Uzbekistan.

The statistics of enterprises carrying out marketing research was used in order to identify consumer preferences of the population, from which data on the most popular names were extracted.

The data of about 5 thousand people were analyzed, as a result of which the most popular names among young people (from 17 to 25 years old) were identified. In general, the analysis revealed more than 200 varieties of names. The analysis of popular names was also complicated by the large number of repeated names with prefixes or additions such as BEK, ABDU or JON. For example, the name Sardor is available in 3 versions - Sardor, Sardorbek, Mirsardor or Sardorzhon (these are all different names, but we considered them in statistics as one name). That is, any name can potentially be duplicated several times in one form or another. This is reported by factorname.ru.

As an example, we can cite such names as: Aziz, Azizbek, Abdulaziz, Azizjon, Orif, Orifjon, Sanjarbek, Sanjarhuzha, Sanjar, Khushruz, Khushroz, etc.

It should be noted that, contrary to expectations, the popular name Aziz was not in the top ten popular names - 16th place (out of 200).

As can be seen from table No. 1, the male Uzbek name Sardor can be considered the most popular name, first place. A newborn child was named Sardor by about 25 per thousand children. It is not for nothing that the meaning of the name Sardor means - leader, leader.

20 most popular names

One of the most pleasant names, Bekzod, took second place. If the name Sardor is repeated 25 times in one thousand, then the name Bekzod can be found 13/1000. Followed by Doston (Duston) and Sherzod, scored almost the same rating.

Contrary to popular belief about the popularity of the name Aziz, it turned out that the name Aziz is not in the first place. However, it falls into the top twenty of popular names. In the ranking, the name "Aziz" (meaning Dear) took 15th place, an excellent indicator considering that the ranking was based on 200 varieties of names.

The most popular twenty included the names of famous people from the history of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, including: Alisher Navoi, Mirzo Ulugbek, Zahiriddin Babur, etc.

The name Mashkhur - the meaning of the name "celebrity", turned out to be not popular, on the contrary, it turned out to be one of the rarest names.

Modern Uzbek names are represented by a large number of components that are widely used. Among them are such components as: zhon, fight, yor, bek, world, abdu, etc. In connection with this, relatively new names constantly appear. Let's take the name Umid as an example, some call the child Umidjon, Umidboy. The common name Orif, there is also a common name Orifjon.

The most popular search engines in the world and the CIS countries (without a doubt, these are Google.com and Yandex.Ru) made it possible to identify the largest requests from Internet users for Uzbek male names, which can rightly be considered an “audience award”.