Entry № 6777 · Ethiopian origin

Mentewab Mentewab — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ men-teh-WAHB /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ethiopian
Meaning
"Ethiopian queen regent (rebuilt Gondar)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Amharic)

A name that means "ethiopian queen regent (rebuilt gondar)".

Mentewab (ምንትዋብ, c. 1706-1773) means "how beautiful" in Amharic. Built the grand palace of Qusquam outside Gondar and was one of the great patrons of Ethiopian Orthodox church architecture.

Ethiopian queen regent (rebuilt Gondar) — a Ethiopian name.

The name in its native script.

ምንትዋብ
Transliteration
Məntəwwab
Pronunciation
/ mɛn.təˈwɑːb /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mentewab stands.

Mentewab 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.

Mentewabs before her.

Real people
Empress Mentewab
Ethiopian empress-regent.
c. 1706 – 1773
In fiction
Mentewab
Featured in James Bruce's Travels.
1790

Names connected to Mentewab.

The number behind Mentewab.

2

The Peacemaker

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