Entry № 4237 · Egyptian origin

Hetepheres Hetepheres — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ heh-TEH-feh-rees /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Khufu's mother (built Great Pyramid)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "khufu's mother (built great pyramid)".

Hetepheres (𓊵𓏏𓊪𓏏𓆑𓂋𓏤𓋴) was the Egyptian queen mother of the 4th Dynasty (c. 2600 BCE) — wife of Pharaoh Sneferu and mother of Pharaoh Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid of Giza. Her elaborate burial cache was discovered in 1925 near her son's pyramid.

Her name means "satisfied is Horus."

Mother of Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid.

The name in its native script.

𓊵𓏏𓊪𓂋𓋴
Transliteration
Ḥtp-ḥrs
Pronunciation
/ həˈtɛ.fə.riːz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hetepheres stands.

Hetepheres 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.

Hetepheress before her.

Real people
Queen Hetepheres I
Mother of Pharaoh Khufu.
c. 2600 BCE
In fiction
Hetepheres
Common in Egyptian historical fiction.

Names connected to Hetepheres.

The number behind Hetepheres.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hetepheres reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.