Egyptian kings and queens names

Some of the first hieroglyphic texts a student or traveler learns are the famous egyptian rulers names, such as Ramses 2nd the Great or Tutankhamon. In this resource you will find a complete list of all the known name variants for all the egyptian kings and queens, sorted by dynasty.

Egyptian chronology

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Name
HOR
1
c. 2900 – 2732 B.C.
2
c. 2730 – 2593 B.C.
3
c. 2592 – 2544 B.C.
4
c. 2543 – 2436 B.C.
5
c. 2435 – 2306 B.C.
6
c. 2305 – 2152 B.C.
7
c. 2126 – 2113 B.C.
8
-
9
c. 2080 – 1940 B.C.
10
c. 1939 – 1760 B.C.
11
1759 – 1659 B.C.
12
-
13
c. ? – ?
14
c. ? – ?
15
c. ? – ?
16
c. 1539 – 1292 B.C.
17
1292 – 1191 B.C.
18
c. 1190 – 1077 B.C.
19
c. 1080 – 944 B.C.
20
943 – c. 746 B.C.
21
c. 828 – 715 B.C.
22
736 – 723 B.C.
23
c. ? – ?
24
664 – 525 B.C.
25
525 – 404 B.C.
26
404 – 399 B.C.
27
399 – 380 B.C.
28
380 – 343 B.C.
29
343 – 332 B.C.
30
-
31
332 – 323 B.C.
32
-
33
-

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Included royal titulatury

For each king and queen you will find, if documented, the names grouped by name type as follows:

  • Serekh - Horus Name
  • Nebty - Two Ladies Name
  • Hor Nebw - Horus of Gold Name
  • Nesut bity - Throne Name (prenomen)
  • Sa Ra - Personal Name (nomen)

We also include, if documented, these secondary names:

  • Pyramid Name
  • Solar Temple Name
  • High Amun Priest Name
  • Other epithets
Name variants resources

The name variants themselves were extracted from several sources (mainly from BECKERATH (2009) and JOHNSON & PETTY, as well as from real artifacts and temples around Egypt).

Only the unique variants were included in this catalogue. Other variants including extra phonetic complements, or direction-related icons (i.e. S29 vs O34) were not included to avoid having a huge noisy amount of irrelevant or similar name variations.

For design reasons, all name variations are displayed in horizontal layout, and names that were originally written vertically were reconfigured for better grouping positions, although the original icons were kept in the vertical layout rather than swapping them for possible vertical versions.

Chronological resources

You are currently viewing the chronological information as HOR (change the active chronology).

Also, we provide updated chronology tables for each dynasty (according to the most complete chronologies nowadays, extracted from HORNUNG, KRAUSS & WARBURTON (2006), SHAW (2000-2007) and BECKERATH (2009), among others).