Name List: African/ Egyptian

Middle Eastern & Adjacent
187African/ Egyptian
30Americas
13British Isles
71East Asian
54Germanic / Nordic
72Latin / Romance
48Northern Eurasia
44Pretty Names
31Surnames
92
African continent
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Name M/F Remark Rating
Thandiwe f Means "loving one" in Xhosa, Zulu and Ndebele, from thanda "to love".
Tendai m / f Means "be thankful" in Shona.
Selam f / m Means "peace" in Amharic.
Saran f Means "joy" in Jula. Dyula, also known as Jula, is a Mande language spoken in Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mali.
Sabah f / m Means "morning" in Arabic and Turkish.
Osei m / f Ghanaian, Akan meaning of royalty
Oluchi f Means "work of God" in Igbo.
Ola 3 m / f From Yoruba ọlà meaning "wealth" or the related ọlá meaning "honour, respect". It is also a short form of names containing those elements.
Ntombi f Means "girl" in Zulu.
Nneoma f Igbo. "Good mother"
Neith f Greek form of Egyptian nt, possibly meaning 'dread waters', the name of an early Egyptian goddess of weaving, hunting and war.
Neema f Swahili name meaning "divine grace", common in East Africa. As a Western African feminine name it allegedly means "born during prosperous times".
Mpho m / f Means "gift" in Tswana and Sotho, a derivative of fa "to offer".
Monica f Meaning unknown, most likely of North African or Phoenician origin.
Meritites f Egyptian. " Beloved by her father". Born by many royal women.
Menes m Greek form of Egyptian mnj probably meaning "he who endures", derived from mn "to endure". Traditionally, Menes was the Egyptian pharaoh who first united Upper and Lower Egypt around the 31st century.
Marial m This is a historical name of "Dinka" people in South Sudan in Africa.
Kamose m From Egyptian meaning "born of the soul",
Iyasus m Form of Jesus used in Ethiopia. Also the name of a 1700 Ethiopian king.
Ismaïla m Western African form of Ismail (see Ishmael).
Iset f Reconstructed Egyptian form of Isis.
Ife f / m West African. Means "love" in Yoruba.
Gudit f Ge'ez form of Judith, from the Hebrew name Yehudit meaning "Jewish woman". Gudit was a Ethiopian falasha queen (flourished ca. 960)
Eyob m Ethiopian and Eritrean form of Job. It is the ancient Ethiopic language Geʽez translation of Job.
Eleni f The name of 15th C Eleni of Hadiya, empress consort and later queen mother of Ethiopia
Bintanath f Means "daughter of Anat". She was the daughter of Ramses II and Isetnofret, later becoming a Great Royal Wife of her father following the death of Nefertari.
Behati f Possibly an Afrikaans variant of BEATA.
Andretti m Caribbean. Likely a transferred use of the surname Andretti.
Ammon m Greek form of Egyptian Yamanu (see Amon).
Amasis m Hellenized form of the ancient Egyptian name IaH-ms or I'h-ms meaning "son of Iah".