Share This Article Temujin is better known to history by this name. Genghis Khan Attila the Hun Mao Zedong Joseph Stalin Saladin Genghis Khan. Reportedly he was named for a Tatar chieftain his father had captured in battle. Born sometime around 1160, probably 1162, he took the name Genghis Khan (supreme conqueror) for himself in 1206.
