Entry № 505 · Meroitic origin

Amanirenas Amanirenas — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-mah-nee-REH-nas /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Meroitic
Meaning
"Kushite queen who fought Augustus (one-eyed)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient (Meroitic)

A name that means "kushite queen who fought augustus (one-eyed)".

Amanirenas (40-10 BCE) was the one-eyed warrior Kandake (Queen Mother) of the Kingdom of Kush in Nubia (modern Sudan) — who personally led an army across the border to defeat three Roman cohorts and beheaded the bronze statue of Augustus at Syene (Aswan), bringing the head back as a war trophy. The buried head — now in the British Museum — was discovered under the steps of her victory temple at Meroe, where it was placed so worshippers would tread on it.

One-eyed Kandake of Kush.

The name in its native script.

Amanirenas
Transliteration
Amanirenas
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.mə.nɪˈrɛn.əs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amanirenas stands.

Amanirenas 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.

Amanirenass before her.

Real people
Amanirenas
Kandake of Kush.
40 – 10 BCE
In fiction
Amanirenas
Featured in modern Sudanese historical fiction.

Names connected to Amanirenas.

The number behind Amanirenas.

5

The Seeker

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