Khatun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khatun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Bangladesh it is the 6th most common surname.
- NPNepal≈1 in 126(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 864
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 23K
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 Khatun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #104 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 126 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Khatoon in PK Pakistan, GY Guyana.
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 lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khatun 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 126 | 1 | Khatun | 27 |
| BD Bangladesh | #6 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 864 | listed | Khatun | 98 |
| IN India | #17 | 19,865 | 1 in 67K | 20K | Khatun | 125 |
| PK Pakistan | #53 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Khatoon | 39 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 39K | #70,927 | Khatun | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #469 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Khatun | 19 |
| QA Qatar | #660 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Khatun | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 47as Khatoon | 1 in 16K | 47 | Khatoon | 2 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Khatun 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 Arabic, t4 (khaatun): noblewoman, lady. A courteous title used
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Daulatunnesa Khatunb. 1918BDwriter and revolutionary woman
- Sufia Khatunb. 1922BDBangladeshi writer (1922–2023)
- Sahara Khatunb. 1943BDBangladeshi politician
- Salma Khatunb. 1990BDBangladeshi woman cricketer
- Fahima Khatunb. 1992BDBangladeshi female cricketer
- Sabina Khatunb. 1993BDBangladeshi association football player
- Akhi Khatunb. 2003BDBangladeshi association football player
- Muskan Khatunb. 2004NPNepalese activist
- Sara KhatunTRMother of Uzun Hassan
- Anas Khatunfemale muhaddith
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #615 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.7K | #45 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 24 | #601 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #105 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Khatun mean, and where does it come from?
- A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Khatun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 thousand people named Khatun in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khatun.
- How common is the name Khatun?
- In India, the national register counted 19,865 people named Khatun, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Khatun compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Khatun is the 6th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khatunThe 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, “Khatun” — the 6th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.