Entry № 10423 · Egyptian origin

Tefnut Tefnut — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEF-noot /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Egyptian goddess of moisture"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "egyptian goddess of moisture".

Tefnut (𓏏𓆑𓈖𓏏𓁦) is the ancient Egyptian goddess of moisture, rain, and dew — depicted as a lioness or as a woman with a lioness's head. One of the original Ennead of Heliopolis.

Rare but iconic in Egyptophilia.

Moisture, rain. The Egyptian lioness goddess.

The name in its native script.

𓏏𓆑𓈖𓏏
Transliteration
Tfnwt
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɛf.nuːt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tefnut stands.

Tefnut 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.

Tefnuts before her.

Real people
Tefnut
Egyptian goddess.
In fiction
Tefnut
Egyptian goddess of moisture.
Egyptian mythology

Names connected to Tefnut.

The number behind Tefnut.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tefnut reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.