Entry № 6767 · Egyptian origin

Meret Meret — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEH-ret /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Goddess of song and rejoicing"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of song and rejoicing".

Meret is an Egyptian goddess of song, music and joyful offerings; her name is linked to mer, beloved.

Musical and warm, it rings with celebration.

Goddess of song and rejoicing — a name from Egyptian myth.

The name in its native script.

Meret
Transliteration
Meret
Pronunciation
/ ˈme.ɾet /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meret stands.

Meret 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.

Merets before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Meret.

The number behind Meret.

7

The Seeker

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