Entry № 7362 · Egyptian origin

Nefertari Nefertari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-fehr-TAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Beautiful companion"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "beautiful companion".

Nefertari (𓄤𓂋𓏏𓂋𓇋𓇋) means "beautiful companion" in ancient Egyptian. Queen Nefertari (c. 1290-1255 BCE) was the favorite wife of Ramesses the Great, whose lavishly decorated tomb in the Valley of the Queens is considered the most beautiful in Egypt.

Nefertari is rare but rising as Egyptian-revival naming gains visibility.

Beautiful companion. Ramesses's favorite queen.

The name in its native script.

𓄤𓂋𓏏𓂋𓇋𓇋
Transliteration
Nefertari
Pronunciation
/ ˌnɛ.fərˈtɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nefertari stands.

Nefertari 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.

Nefertaris before her.

Real people
Queen Nefertari
Wife of Ramesses the Great.
c. 1290 – 1255 BCE
In fiction
Nefertari
Common in Egyptian-themed fiction.

Names connected to Nefertari.

The number behind Nefertari.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nefertari reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.