Entry № 8313 · Hittite origin

Puduhepa Puduhepa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poo-doo-HEH-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hittite
Meaning
"Great Hittite queen (Treaty of Kadesh)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Hittite)

A name that means "great hittite queen (treaty of kadesh)".

Puduhepa (c. 1290-1220 BCE) was the great Hittite queen — wife of King Hattusili III — who co-ruled the Hittite Empire as Tawananna (Great Queen). She corresponded directly with Pharaoh Ramesses II as an equal, negotiating the marriage of her daughter to him. Her seal appears alongside her husband's on the Treaty of Kadesh — the world's earliest surviving international peace treaty (1259 BCE).

Her diplomatic letters are preserved in the Hittite archives at Hattusa.

Great Hittite queen. Co-signed the world's earliest surviving peace treaty with Ramesses II.

The name in its native script.

𒈦𒁺𒃶𒁉𒅀
Transliteration
Puduḫepa
Pronunciation
/ ˌpuː.duːˈhɛ.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Puduhepa stands.

Puduhepa 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.

Puduhepas before her.

Real people
Puduhepa
Hittite Great Queen.
c. 1290 – 1220 BCE
In fiction
Puduhepa
Hittite archives.

Names connected to Puduhepa.

The number behind Puduhepa.

2

The Peacemaker

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