Entry № 10412 · Ancient Egyptian origin

Taweret Taweret — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-WEH-ret /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ancient Egyptian
Meaning
"Egyptian hippopotamus-goddess of childbirth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "egyptian hippopotamus-goddess of childbirth".

Taweret (Egyptian Tȝ-wrt, "The Great One") was the Egyptian protective goddess of childbirth and fertility — depicted as a pregnant hippopotamus standing upright on lion's feet with a crocodile on her back. The most popular household deity in ancient Egypt — her amulets were worn by women across every social class to protect them through pregnancy and childbirth. Husband of Bes.

The Great One.

The name in its native script.

𓁗
Transliteration
Tȝ-wrt
Pronunciation
/ təˈwɛr.ɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Taweret stands.

Taweret 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.

Tawerets before her.

Real people
Taweret
Egyptian goddess of childbirth.
In fiction
Taweret
Featured in Lost (ABC TV).
2004-2010

Names connected to Taweret.

The number behind Taweret.

2

The Peacemaker

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