Entry № 9379 · Egyptian origin

Seshat Seshat — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEH-shat /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Egyptian
Meaning
"Goddess of writing and wisdom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of writing and wisdom".

Seshat is the ancient Egyptian goddess of writing, measurement, records and wisdom — the divine scribe.

Clever and precise, her name honours learning and the written word.

Goddess of writing and wisdom — a name from Egyptian myth.

The name in its native script.

Seshat
Transliteration
Seshat
Pronunciation
/ ˈse.ʃat /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Seshat stands.

Seshat 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.

Seshats before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Seshat.

The number behind Seshat.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Seshat reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.