Entry № 7529 · Egyptian origin

Nofret Nofret — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NOF-ret /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"The beautiful one"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "the beautiful one".

Nofret means the beautiful one, from the Egyptian nefer (beautiful, good) — the same root behind Nefertiti and Nefertari. It was worn by noblewomen of the Old Kingdom.

The painted limestone statue of the Lady Nofret, seated beside her husband Rahotep, is one of the most lifelike images to survive from ancient Egypt.

The beautiful one — an ancient Egyptian name.

The name in its native script.

Nofret
Transliteration
Nofret
Pronunciation
/ ˈnof.ret /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nofret stands.

Nofret 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.

Nofrets before her.

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Names connected to Nofret.

The number behind Nofret.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nofret reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.