Entry № 7347 · Egyptian origin

Nekhbet Nekhbet — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEKH-bet /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Protector goddess of Upper Egypt"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "protector goddess of upper egypt".

Nekhbet is the vulture goddess who guarded the kings and pharaohs of Upper Egypt, a fierce protector.

Her name carries the shelter of outspread wings.

Protector goddess of Upper Egypt — a name from Egyptian myth.

The name in its native script.

Nekhbet
Transliteration
Nekhbet
Pronunciation
/ ˈnex.bet /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nekhbet stands.

Nekhbet 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.

Nekhbets before her.

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In fiction

Names connected to Nekhbet.

The number behind Nekhbet.

2

The Peacemaker

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