Given name
Imhotep
Imhotep is a masculine given name from Egyptian, meaning “(the one) coming in peace, (the one) returning home safely.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Imhotep means “(the one) coming in peace, (the one) returning home safely.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Imhotep developed from jj-m-ḥtp.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Imhotep through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43
- 43 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1993.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Imhotep’s family of names
In English usage, Imhotep developed from jj-m-ḥtp.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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