Having seen the names of Egyptian gods and pharaohs for your babies, the girls were not going to be less, and today we bring to our pages the names of Egyptian goddesses and queens. Some names as well known as Cleopatra, others less known but always very original.
You may like the idea that your baby bears the name of a historical character or a divinity dedicated to life, fertility or nature, perhaps among these Egyptian names for girls you will find the ideal for your baby.
Egyptian goddess names
- Anat, one of the women of the god Seth and wife of Ra, goddess of war, fertility and love. Syrian origin It was honored primarily during the New Kingdom.
- Astarte or Istar, woman of Seth, goddess of war, love. Syrian origin
Amunet, goddess of mystery.
Bastet, goddess who represented herself as a woman with a cat's head or as a cat. It represents the personification of the hot rays of the Sun and exercised its beneficial powers. It embodied the peaceful aspects of dangerous goddesses like Sacmis. It was associated with the moon and protected births and pregnant women from diseases and evil spirits.
- Hathor, Hut-Hor or Uatchit, Egyptian goddess whose name means "Temple of Horus". It was a cosmic divinity, goddess of love, joy, dance and musical arts, nourishing goddess and patron of the drunk in Egyptian mythology. She is a mother, wife and partner at the same time. An alternate name for Hathor, which persisted for 3,000 years, was Mehturt (also spelled Mehurt, Mehet-Weret, and Mehet-uret). Represented as a cow or as a woman with ears and horns of the same animal among which it showed a sun disk
- Hehet, goddess of the immeasurable
- Heqet, Heqat, Hekit, Heget or Hegit: beneficial goddess, symbol of life and fertility, who presides over births and as a midwife helped in childbirth, according to Egyptian mythology. Mythical goddess with frog head.
- Isis, Auset, Serq or Selk. Isis is the Greek name of a goddess of Egyptian mythology. His Egyptian name was Ast, which means throne, represented by the hieroglyph that he carried on his head. It was called "Great Magician," "Great Mother Goddess," "Queen of the Gods," "Fecunding Force of Nature," "Goddess of Motherhood and Birth."
- Keket, Egyptian goddess of darkness.
- Maat, symbol of Truth, Justice and cosmic Harmony; She was also represented as goddess, Ra's daughter in Egyptian mythology. This goddess was represented as a woman, standing or sitting, with a large ostrich feather on her head, fastened with a diadem. It represents the balance, the harmony of the universe as it was created at the beginning. Watches the courts and it possess temples.
- Mehturt, Mehurt, Mehet-Weret or Mehet-uret or Meht urt, names of the goddess Hathor, represented by a cow.
- Mout, dangerous goddess, lion divinity in its origin and little witnessed.
- Naunet, mythological goddess of the ocean.
- Neb het, goddess of nature.
- Neith, Netla, divine mother, ancient goddess of war and hunting, later creator of gods and men, funerary divinity, goddess of wisdom and inventor in Egyptian mythology.
- Nekhbet, the vulture goddess.
- Nephthys or Nephthys, goddess of nature daughter of Nut and Geb.
- Niut, goddess of nothingness.
- Nut, or Nuit, "The Great that bore the gods", is the goddess of heaven, creator of the universe and the stars, according to Egyptian mythology.
- Renenet or ThermuthisGoddess of fortune.
- Sakhmet or Sekmet, goddess worshiped in Memphis. "Lioness".
- Sacmis, which expressed the evil qualities of the Sun.
- Tauret or Tueris, hippo goddess, protector of pregnant women.
- Uadjit, revered snake goddess in Lower Egypt (Buto), cobra goddess.
Egyptian queens names
Some of these queens they left their mark on history, others will be unknown to us, and some of them with an unpronounceable name in our language have omitted them in this list.
- Ahhotep
- Ahmose
- Ankhenesmeryre
- Arsinoe
- Artatama
- Berenice
- Betrest
- Bunefer
- Cleopatra, name of several queens of Egypt, the most famous is Cleopatra Filopator Nea Thea, that is, Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Ancient Egypt of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Cleopatra was born around the year 69 a. C. and died in the year 30 a. C.
- Epi, queen of Punt (southeast of Egypt).
- Hatshepsut, queen-pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Fifth ruler of said dynasty, reigned from 1479 a. C. to 1457 a. C. Ruled under the name of Maatkara Hatshepsut, and became the woman who was the longest on the throne of the "Two Lands". The name of Hatshepsut with which it is recognized today in principle was a title with the meaning of "The first of the noble ladies", which was also presented in its full form of Hatshepsut Jenemetamon, that is, "The first of the noble ladies, united to Amun. "
- Henutsen
- Herneith
- Istnofret (Isinope)
- Kama
- Kawit
- Kiya
- Menhet, Merti, Menwi
- Mentuhotep
- Meresankh
- Meritites
- Nebet
- Nefertari. Nefert-Ary was an Egyptian queen of the 19th dynasty, universally known for the beautiful tomb in which she was buried. He was the Great Royal Wife of one of the best-known pharaohs in history, Ramses II, the Great, and it seems that he not only played an important role in the heart of this man but was a brilliant political mind
- Nefertiti (c. 1370 BC - c. 1330 BC), was a great queen of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, Great Royal Wife of Ajenatón (Akenatón). Its Egyptian name, nfr.u itn, nfrt.y.ty, translates as "Beauty of Aton, the beauty has arrived."
- Neferu
- Neith
- Nitocris (Nitiqret)
- Nofret or Nefret
- Olympia (370 BC-316 BC), married to Philip II of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great, whose paternity is doubtful. Not exactly queen of Egypt but of Macedonia, although her son did extend the reign of Macedonia with the Persian Empire to Egypt.
- Tiye
- Tuyi
- Udjebten
- Weretyamtes
- Yah
In case you still have not found the name you like, we will soon return with new Egyptian female names for your baby. Surely they are also very original in our context ...
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