Entry № 690 · 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.

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.