Given name
Nefertiti
“a queenly woman”
Nefertiti is used as a given name. One Egyptian interpretation is “a queenly woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Egyptian interpretation is “a queenly woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Egyptian.
How it developed
From Egyptian nfrt-jj.tj (“The Beautiful One has Come”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nefertiti through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 891
- 0 boys · 891 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 33 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #9,290 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −28%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 9,290 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 28.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 722 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nefertiti’s family of names
Nefertiti has a related form in Nefertari. Nefertiti has a related form in Nefertitea. Nefertiti has a related form in Nefertitee.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Nefertarivariant
- Neffertitilikely variant
- Nefertittilikely variant
- Nefertiteavariant
- Nefertytievariant
- Nefertiteevariant
- Nefertitievariant
- Nefertityvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Nefertiti
- NefertitiEgyptian queen and Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh1369 BC–1329 BC
- Néfertiti NgudianzaCongolese politicianborn 1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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