Khatuna
Georgian for queen and lady, from khatun, the old title once given to a khan's wife. Fewer than 300 women in Poland carry it, and most Poles will never meet one.
Khatuna Pronunciation
Khatuna is pronounced kkhah-TOO-nah (/kxaˈtuna/).
What Khatuna means
Where Khatuna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Khatuna comes to us from Georgian, where it means simply queen and lady. Its source is the word khatun, an old title of Turkic and Mongolic origin that named the wife of a khan or a woman of high rank. As Georgian took the word in, the title loosened into an ordinary given name, and a girl could hold the sense of queen without any crown.
The title has a long documented life. In the Mongol Empire a khatun could rule as regent, and chroniclers used the word for the most powerful women at court. Georgian kept the meaning close: a royal woman, a lady of rank. That sense came first. It stayed.
On a Polish class register the name looks unusual, a few familiar spellings around it and then Khatuna near the top. It has no Polish name-day of its own, no cluster of diminutives waiting. What it does carry is exact. Khatuna means queen, królowa, and lady.
How many people are named Khatuna
1 in 76680 women in Poland is named Khatuna. 294 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1765 among female names.