Entry № 6772 · Greek origin

Memphis Memphis — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEM-fis /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Established and beautiful (the Tennessee city + ancient Egypt)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "established and beautiful (the tennessee city + ancient egypt)".

Memphis is from the Greek rendering of the Ancient Egyptian Mn-nfr ("established and beautiful") — the ancient capital of Lower Egypt. Memphis, Egypt — ancient Egyptian capital founded c. was assassinated April 4, 1968).

Established and beautiful. Memphis, Egypt c.

The name in its native script.

Memphis
Transliteration
Memphis
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛm.fɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Memphis stands.

Memphis 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.

Memphiss before her.

Real people

In fiction
Memphis
Ancient Egyptian capital + Tennessee city.

Names connected to Memphis.

The number behind Memphis.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Memphis reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.