Entry № 9928 · Mongolian origin

Sorghaghtani Sorghaghtani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sor-GAHG-tah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Mongolian
Meaning
"Mother of Kublai Khan (the most remarkable woman)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Mongolian)

A name that means "mother of kublai khan (the most remarkable woman)".

Sorghaghtani Beki (c. 1190-1252) was a Nestorian Christian Mongol princess — daughter-in-law of Genghis Khan, mother of Kublai Khan and three other Great Khans (Möngke, Hulagu, Ariq Böke).

Featured in The Secret History of the Mongols.

Called 'the most remarkable woman in the world.'

The name in its native script.

Сорхагтани
Transliteration
Sorqaqtani
Pronunciation
/ sɔːrˈɡæɡ.tə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sorghaghtani stands.

Sorghaghtani 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.

Sorghaghtanis before her.

Real people
Sorghaghtani Beki
Mother of Kublai Khan.
c. 1190 – 1252
In fiction
Sorghaghtani
Secret History of the Mongols.

Names connected to Sorghaghtani.

The number behind Sorghaghtani.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sorghaghtani reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.