Entry № 687 · Egyptian origin

Ankhesenamun Ankhesenamun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahnk-eh-sen-AH-moon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Her life is of Amun (Tutankhamun's wife)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "her life is of amun (tutankhamun's wife)".

Ankhesenamun (𓋹𓋴𓁹𓏤𓇋𓏠𓈖) was the wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1348-after 1322 BCE) — daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, half-sister-wife of Tut. After his death, she wrote a famous desperate letter to the Hittite king asking for a husband.

Featured prominently in Egyptian historical fiction.

Her life is of Amun. Tutankhamun's wife.

The name in its native script.

𓋹𓋴𓁹𓇋𓏠𓈖
Transliteration
ʿnḫ-s-n-imn
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑːŋk.ə.sɛnˈɑː.muːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ankhesenamun stands.

Ankhesenamun does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Ankhesenamuns before her.

Real people
Queen Ankhesenamun
Wife of Tutankhamun.
c. 1348 – after 1322 BCE
In fiction
Ankhesenamun
Featured in The Mummy (1999).
Film

Names connected to Ankhesenamun.

The number behind Ankhesenamun.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ankhesenamun reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.