Entry № 7363 · Egyptian origin

Nefertiti Nefertiti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ neh-fer-TEE-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"The beautiful one has come"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "the beautiful one has come".

Nefertiti (𓄤𓂋𓏏𓇋𓏏𓆑) means "the beautiful one has come" in ancient Egyptian. Queen Nefertiti (c. 1370-1330 BCE) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and possibly co-regent of Egypt. Her famous limestone bust by the sculptor Thutmose is in Berlin's Neues Museum.

Nefertiti is rare but distinctive.

The beautiful one has come. Akhenaten's queen.

The name in its native script.

𓄤𓂋𓏏𓇋𓏏𓆑
Transliteration
Nefertiti
Pronunciation
/ ˌnɛ.fərˈtiː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nefertiti stands.

Nefertiti 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.

Nefertitis before her.

Real people
Queen Nefertiti
Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten.
c. 1370 – 1330 BCE
In fiction
Nefertiti
Common in Egyptian-themed fiction.

Names connected to Nefertiti.

The number behind Nefertiti.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nefertiti reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.