Entry № 6766 · Egyptian origin

Meresankh Meresankh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEH-res-ankh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"She loves life"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "she loves life".

Meresankh means she loves life, joining meres (she loves) with ankh (life) — the famous looped cross of Egyptian art.

Several queens of the Old Kingdom bore the name; the tomb of Meresankh III still keeps its vivid painted reliefs.

She loves life — an ancient Egyptian name.

The name in its native script.

Meresankh
Transliteration
Meresankh
Pronunciation
/ ˈme.res.ankx /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meresankh stands.

Meresankh 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.

Meresankhs before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Meresankh.

The number behind Meresankh.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meresankh reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.