Entry № 10486 · Ancient Egyptian origin

Tetisheri Tetisheri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ teh-tee-SHEH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ancient Egyptian
Meaning
"Matriarch of the 18th Dynasty"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "matriarch of the 18th dynasty".

Tetisheri (c. 1575 BCE) was the great matriarch of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty — wife of Senakhtenre Ahmose I, mother of Seqenenre Tao and Queen Ahhotep, grandmother of King Ahmose I.

Her mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache.

Matriarch of the 18th Dynasty — a Ancient Egyptian name.

The name in its native script.

Tetisheri
Transliteration
Tetisheri
Pronunciation
/ ˌtɛ.tɪˈʃɛ.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tetisheri stands.

Tetisheri 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.

Tetisheris before her.

Real people
Queen Tetisheri
Matriarch of Egypt's 18th Dynasty.
c. 1575 BCE
In fiction
Tetisheri
Egyptian archives.

Names connected to Tetisheri.

The number behind Tetisheri.

5

The Seeker

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