Entry № 7624 · Egyptian origin

Nut Nut — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Sky goddess (Egyptian)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "sky goddess (egyptian)".

Nut (𓏌𓏏𓆇𓁦) is the ancient Egyptian sky goddess — depicted as a woman whose body arches across the heavens, her hands and feet touching the four horizons. Mother of Isis, Osiris, Set, and Nephthys. Each evening she swallows the sun; each morning she gives birth to it.

Rare but iconic in Egyptophilia.

The Egyptian sky goddess. Mother of Isis.

The name in its native script.

𓏌𓏏𓆇
Transliteration
Nwt
Pronunciation
/ nuːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nut stands.

Nut 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.

Nuts before her.

Real people
Nut
Egyptian goddess.
In fiction
Nut
Egyptian sky goddess.
Egyptian mythology

Names connected to Nut.

The number behind Nut.

1

The Leader

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