Entry № 1595 · Mongolian origin

Börte Börte — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BUR-teh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mongolian
Meaning
"Genghis Khan's first wife (Mother Empress)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Mongolian)

A name that means "genghis khan's first wife (mother empress)".

Börte (c. 1161-c. 1230) was the first and principal wife of Genghis Khan — betrothed to him at age 9, married at 17. Kidnapped by the Merkit tribe shortly after their marriage, her rescue was the unifying campaign that began Temüjin's rise to becoming Genghis Khan.

Featured in The Secret History of the Mongols.

Genghis Khan's first wife.

The name in its native script.

Бөртэ
Transliteration
Börte
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɜːr.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Börte stands.

Börte 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.

Börtes before her.

Real people
Börte Üjin
First wife of Genghis Khan.
c. 1161 – c. 1230
In fiction
Börte
Secret History of the Mongols.

Names connected to Börte.

The number behind Börte.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Börte reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.