Khatoon
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khatoon is a surname, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Urdu, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: prominent, distinguished woman.
- BDBangladesh1 in 13◐
- PKPakistan1 in 451
- SASaudi Arabia1 in 7.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈22K ●
- #38 ●
- 6 ●
- Sources
- 136 ●
- 1 in 16K ◐
across 11 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
4.9M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Khatun in BD Bangladesh, IN India, US United States and 22 more and Hatun in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
prominent, distinguished woman
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #3 | 20,250,291 | 6.5K rec. | — | listed | Khatun | 92 |
| PK Pakistan | #53 | 111,635 | 534 rec. | — | listed | Khatoon | 34 |
| IN India | #20 | 19,865 | 4.8M rec. | 1 in 67K | 20K | Khatun | 116 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 8,148 | 5.2K rec. | — | — | Khatun | 95 |
| TH Thailand | — | 1,944 | 1.4K rec. | — | #70,927 | Khatun | 13 |
| US United States | — | 1,517 | 11K rec. | 1 in 219K | 2.9K | Khatun | 136 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #516 | 1,237 | 291 rec. | — | — | Khatun | 18 |
| NP Nepal | — | 1,083 | 5.2K rec. | — | 1 | Khatun | 28 |
| FR France | — | 1,066 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Khatun | 36 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 846 | 185 rec. | — | — | Khatun | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | 675 | 751 rec. | — | — | Khatun | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 181 | 178 rec. | — | — | Khatun | 22 |
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Languages●
- Hindi2.3M78%
- Urdu281K10%
- Bangla110K4%
- English95K3%
- Indonesian42K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 2,309,948 | 78% |
| Urdu | 281,293 | 10% |
| Bangla | 109,796 | 4% |
| English | 95,354 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 41,990 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 11 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 14 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 16 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 20 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 19 years between 2002–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maryam Khatoon Molkarab. 1950IRIranian Trans Rights Activist
- Surayya Khatoonb. 1957botanist
- Naima Khatoonb. 1961INVice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University
- Naseema Khatoonb. 1981INhuman rights activist from India
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●
Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Khatoon?
- We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Khatoon (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Khatoon have the most bearers?
- Khatoon is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled khatun.
- How common is Khatoon compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Khatoon is the 3rd most common surname of 11,292 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Khatoon mean?
- Recorded meaning: prominent, distinguished woman
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Khatoon” — the 3rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.