Entry № 5457 · Mongolian origin

Khulan Khulan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KHOO-lahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mongolian
Meaning
"Wild ass, onager (Genghis Khan's wife)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Mongolian)

A name that means "wild ass, onager (genghis khan's wife)".

Khulan (Хулан) is the Mongolian word for the wild onager (Equus hemionus) of the Mongolian steppe — an endangered swift wild ass. Khulan Khatun (12th-13th c.) was the second principal wife of Genghis Khan — captured from the Merkit tribe, she rose to become one of his most trusted companions, accompanying him on campaign.

Featured in the Secret History of the Mongols.

Wild ass, onager (Genghis Khan's wife) — a Mongolian name.

The name in its native script.

Хулан
Transliteration
Khulan
Pronunciation
/ ˈkuː.lən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Khulan stands.

Khulan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Khulans before her.

Real people
Khulan Khatun
Genghis Khan's second wife.
12th-13th c.
In fiction
Khulan
Featured in the Secret History of the Mongols.

Names connected to Khulan.

The number behind Khulan.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Khulan reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.