Entry № 6789 · Ancient Egyptian origin

Meretseger Meretseger — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEH-ret-SEH-ger /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ancient Egyptian
Meaning
"She who loves silence (cobra of Theban necropolis)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "she who loves silence (cobra of theban necropolis)".

Worshipped principally by the artisans who built the royal tombs — she was believed to strike with blindness or venom any who violated the silent valleys of the dead.

She who loves silence (cobra of Theban necropolis) — a Ancient Egyptian name.

The name in its native script.

𓀵𓎟𓋴𓎼𓂋
Transliteration
Mrt-sgr
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛr.ətˌsɛɡ.ər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meretseger stands.

Meretseger 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.

Meretsegers before her.

Real people
Meretseger
Egyptian goddess.
In fiction
Meretseger
Deir el-Medina ostraca.

Names connected to Meretseger.

The number behind Meretseger.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meretseger reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.