"Khan" surname: Is the title name only carried by Pashtuns, Punjabis, Mohajirs or other ethnicities?

[fitpOsitive]

why Urdu-Speaking from India use the word "Khan" when there is no link to it.

Even Pashtoon don't have any link to origin of the work Khan, then why they use it? Are they Mongol or any link to Mongols?

 

[GumNaam]

the origination is turk/mongol who left their influence through out the region. you will even find CHINESE people with the last name of "Kahn" or even "Khan"...they are one in the same due to mongol rule. Chinese actress/martial artist Cynthia Khan is one such example:

the Khans you find in Pakistan, afghanistan & india are basically descendants of mongols who converted to Islam or Turks who settled in this part of the world.

 

[Asian.Century]

Look at this : Punjabi Supremacists now openly claim as the most superior race:

Salman Taseer daughter twitter account:

https://twitter.com/sarataseer

Sara Taseer
@sarataseer
Too fascist for the liberals. Too liberal for the fascists. Punjabi supremacist. B(Sc)Econ LSE UK, UWC alum. Jewellery Artist. Salmaan Taseer my fab Abba.

 

[KurtisBrian]

if the word was English I would guess that Khan had to do with the leader of a group of angry Chinese men. Han are the Chinese. So probably some sort of strife in ancient china caused a group of chinese men (likely well armed disaffected workers or defeated military) to break away. Those men gathered others to themselves then ransacked and looted Central Asia to create a land for themselves.
That is if it was an English word. haha Don't know what it is like in your Urdu and Chinese languages.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

Khan was given to those who served the Mughal Empire and other empires. Descendants of chiefs of tribes or those distinguished in combat.

This is how Khan became so widespread.

Look at this : Punjabi Supremacists now openly claim as the most superior race:

Salman Taseer daughter twitter account:

https://twitter.com/sarataseer

Sara Taseer
@sarataseer
Too fascist for the liberals. Too liberal for the fascists. Punjabi supremacist. B(Sc)Econ LSE UK, UWC alum. Jewellery Artist. Salmaan Taseer my fab Abba.

I did not expect that she would be an Imran Khan supporter. She is actually not anti-Pakistan, I am very shocked.

I saw no Punjabi supremacy stuff there, maybe a joke?

 

[MastanKhan]

There are Khan's in Bangladesh too.

However Khan surname does not reflect an ethnicity like Soomro is a title exclusive to Sindhis, Bhattacharya is a surname exclusive to Bengalis.

Most Khan titles has been borrowed or someone bestowed this title upon them.

Khan is also not exclusively a Islamic title. There are Mongols in Mongolia who have Khan title but are not Muslims.

Hi,

The name Khan---originates from the mongol name---. Where ever they went---they left their seed---.

 

[Azadkashmir]

Agree. In Azad Kashmir we can easily identify Rajput(we call them Raja's). The way they behave, treat you, understand your points, life style, even if he is poor he will be intellectual/intelligent, and will understand your points easily and will treat you good.

Although I dont treat people differently but from experience being friends with some low cast people makes your life hell, they can't even understand your points and understand it from a narrow point of view, then twist your words, or they give you proper stupid advice and later on they be following the same thing. At times their houses are messy and unclean(although you could easily hide this). They maybe super rice but their intellect is dead.

Could anyone tell me what I am dealing with please lol, seriously. You dont know how difficult it is to deal with this unless you get the experience. I guarantee all the highly educated PDF members will be depressed and will run a mile

so your a raja a deceptive tribe. lol am choudary your rival enemy.

 

[KurtisBrian]

Hi,

The name Khan---originates from the mongol name---. Where ever they went---they left their seed---.

hi again,
From an English point of view the name must have originated before the mongoloids. The word mongoloid in English means a person with Down syndrome thus a retarded people. That means some English speaker equated the mongols with very low intelligence retards. Doubtful, retarded people would be creating languages and words.
Like you said, they would leaving their seed (thus the retard taint) by raping as they burned, enslaved, killed and pillaged. Just like the Nazis did in WW2 and Germans did with the fall of Rome.
Bet it is kind of like the Wendols or "We end alls" in that book/movie the 13th warrior. The "We end alls" had no technology and used charge tactics, kind of stupid. In all three cases the retards were wiped out or culled. Some people never learn because they cannot learn.

 

[Kamikaze Pilot]

Hi,

Khunh, Haan, Kahn are some other names for Khan.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

- PRTP GWD

 

[MastanKhan]

hi again,
Bet it is kind of like the Wendols or "We end alls" in that book/movie the 13th warrior. The "We end alls" had no technology and used charge tactics, kind of stupid. In all three cases the retards were wiped out or culled. Some people never learn because they cannot learn.

Hi,

Mongol gene maybe in a vast majority of the population. They have not been culled but have been integrated in the society---in china---in the middle east---in europe---in the sub continent.

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

"Khan" surname: Is the name only carried by Pashtuns, Punjabis, Mohajiris or any other ethnicities?

And I can understand history and intermarriages between Punjabis, Paktoons and Afghans using Khan, why Urdu-Speaking from India use the word "Khan" when there is no link to it.

The name "KHAN" is of the most common names identified among Pakistanis. Always wondered whether anyother ethnic tribes, race or caste carry the surname "Khan" also?

The Khan's or Hans trace their ancesstory back to Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan or Halaku han and the han dynasty. Later some of their descendants converted to Islam and conquest the subcontinent.

The punjabis, phustoons and some Afghans carry the surname khan, which does not represent the tribe but the linkage to the khan dynasty. They have their own tribes and cast later.

Like phustoons have ahmedzai, yousufzai and many others. And so does punjabis has other names like Rajput, Bhattis, Jatts, Qureshis, Siddiques etc etc

Also further information,
Khan is a surname deriving from the title khan originating among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Steppe during antiquity and popularized by Turkic dynasties in the rest of Asia during the medieval period. Used in the Rourans firstly, and also by the early rulers of Bulgaria, it was more widely spread by the Islamic chieftains in what isnow Turkey, Iran, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

Khan is a common surname particularly among Muslims of Central and South Asian origin. It is one of the most common surnames in the world, shared by over 12 million people in Asia and 24 million worldwide.

Not just us it was taken as title wherever genghis and his predecessors went. The shah pahlavis of Iran replaced khan with pehlvi in their names..
Furthermore khan was not the only title passed around mughal , syed, ghilzai(khilji) etc. they were all titles.

 

[jupiter2007]

some of the Khan either Yousafzai kakyzai omerzai or any other tribe from Afghan moved from Afghanistan to different parts of india like bihar lakhnov dehli and other places then some of them moved back to Pakistan in 47 with the same surname khan i know many of them they call themselves mohajir like one of MQM prominent leader Amir khan.

When Hindu village converted to Islam, the people of that village were given “Khan” as their last name. My ancestors were Hindu rajpoot from Punjab/Haryana and they were given Khan as their last name after they converted to Islam.

 

[ARMalik]

Well all of you are forgetting the biggest KHAN of all. The Khan in "STAR WARS -- The Wrath of Khan" !

 

[Azadkashmir]

 

[Bilal Khan (Quwa)]

Hi,

The name Khan---originates from the mongol name---. Where ever they went---they left their seed---.

Though a lot of people draw ancestry from the Mongols, I don't think the name "Khan" is necessarily linked to that fact. Tribes from the Steppe had been using "Khan" as a title long before the Mongol Empire. Ultimately, the Mongols were one among several who were using the "Khan" title. It was also limited to the nobility of those tribes, not any normal guy.

If anything, the use of the name "Khan" is something South Asians did in reverence of generations upon generations of those Turkic rulers. That includes the Mongols (specifically Timurids), but also the Afghan-Turkic tribes that entered South Asia before them too. In some parts, like Hyderabad-Deccan, "Khan" was mostly a title given to those in the Nawab's entourage (officers, judges, retainers, etc). Sure, to some extent these 'Khans' descended from the same Turkic stock, but most of them were of local South Asian origin.