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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Meritaten

1400 BC - 1400 BC

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Meritaten, also spelled Merytaten, Meritaton or Meryetaten (Ancient Egyptian: mrii.t-itn) (14th century BC), was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Her name means "She who is beloved of Aten"; Aten being the sun-deity whom her father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, worshipped. She held several titles, performing official roles for her father and becoming the Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Smenkhkare, who may have been a brother or son of Akhenaten. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meritaten has received more than 422,909 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Meritaten is the 372nd most popular religious figure (up from 1,249th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 75th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Egyptian Religious Figure.

Meritaten was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She was the second wife of her father and the mother of Tutankhamun. She is most famous for being the mother of Tutankhamun, who was the last Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Meritaten ranks 372 out of 2,238. Before her are Muhammad al-Mahdi, Pope Vitalian, Saint Apollonia, Pope Zosimus, Mahavira, and Saint Nino. After her are Maya, Pope Hormisdas, Pope Victor III, Pope Simplicius, Pope Anastasius I, and Faustina Kowalska.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400 BC, Meritaten ranks 5. Before her are Nefertiti, Akhenaten, Miriam, and Smenkhkare. After her are Jethro, Kiya, Shalmaneser I, Meritamen, Muršili II, Ashur-uballit I, and Adad-nirari I. Among people deceased in 1400 BC, Meritaten ranks 3. Before her are Ankhesenamun and Ay. After her are Thutmose IV, Jethro, Kiya, Amenhotep, son of Hapu, Arnuwanda II, Yuya, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Tudḫaliya I.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Meritaten ranks 64 out of 582. Before her are Amenhotep II (-1401), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Eli Cohen (1924), Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), Cleopatra Selene II (-40), and Saint Apollonia (110). After her are Muhammad Abduh (1849), Sextus Empiricus (160), Shoshenq I (-1000), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Appian (95), and Paul of Thebes (227).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Egypt

Among religious figures born in Egypt, Meritaten ranks 12. Before her are Hagar (-1800), Seti I (-1323), Miriam (-1400), Moses in Islam (-1392), Tiye (-1398), and Saint Apollonia (110). After her are Paul of Thebes (227), Saint Maurice (250), Pachomius the Great (292), Saint Menas (285), Saint Sarah (100), and Mary of Egypt (344).

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