Pharaoh Name Generator

A pharaoh did not have one name; he had five. The two that matter most are the birth name, given at birth and usually honouring a god (Thutmose, 'born of Thoth'; Ramesses, 'Ra has fashioned him'), and the throne name, taken at coronation and almost always ending in -re for Ra: Menkheperre ('enduring is the manifestation of Ra'), Nebmaatre ('Ra is lord of truth'), Usermaatre ('powerful is the truth of Ra'). Contemporaries used the throne name, which is why Ramesses II appears in foreign letters as Usermaatre Setepenre. Older still is the Horus name, which is how the earliest kings like Narmer and Den were known.

This generator mixes all of those layers. You will find birth names of real rulers from every dynasty, including obscure Second Intermediate Period kings and the Kushite and Ptolemaic rulers who came later; throne names on their own, which make excellent names for fictional kings; Horus names such as Netjerikhet and Sematawy; female pharaohs from Merneith to Twosret; and original names assembled from the same building blocks (neb, kheper, maat, user, sekhem, ankh, hotep) so they sound royal without belonging to a real tomb.

Read a throne name and a birth name together, as in Nebpehtire Ahmose, and you have the form an Egyptian scribe would have carved.