The History of Surnames of Moslems

Khan means leader in the mongol language and also in various turkic languages. Before to day, the turkish peoples are almost all moslems. They were practitioners of ancient polytheistic culture called thengrism. Chingis han's grandson, hulegu han, destroyed the penultimate calipet, the bardad calipet. So that's he was called khan, because he was the king of the mongols.