Entry № 10643 · Egyptian origin

Tiye Tiye — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEE-yeh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Akhenaten's mother, Tut's grandmother"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "akhenaten's mother, tut's grandmother".

Tiye (𓏏𓇋𓇋𓂝𓁗) was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of Tutankhamun (c. 1398-1338 BCE). She was the most influential woman of the New Kingdom — credited with significant political power and addressed by foreign rulers as an equal.

Her bust from Medinet el-Gurob is one of the masterpieces of 18th Dynasty art.

Akhenaten's mother, Tut's grandmother — a Egyptian name.

The name in its native script.

𓏏𓇋𓇋
Transliteration
Tiye
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiː.jɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tiye stands.

Tiye 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.

Tiyes before her.

Real people
Queen Tiye
Great Royal Wife of Amenhotep III.
c. 1398 – 1338 BCE
In fiction
Tiye
Common in Egyptian historical fiction.

Names connected to Tiye.

The number behind Tiye.

5

The Seeker

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