# Imhotep (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/imhotep/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “(the one) coming in peace”, “(the one) returning home safely”, “to come”, “to return”, “in peace”, “safely” |
| Pronunciation | /ɪmˈhoʊ.tɛp/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 43 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 43 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Egyptian jj-m-ḥtp (literally “(the one) coming in peace, (the one) returning home safely”): M18-G17-R4:X1*Q3 from the perfective active participle of jj (“to come, to return”) + m ḥtp (“in peace, safely”).

## What it means

Imhotep is grouped under peace.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 6 | 5,790 |
| 1993 | 8 | 6,444 |
| 1995 | 6 | 8,197 |
| 2000 | 7 | 8,540 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,196 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,380 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12,853 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: إمحوتب
- Czech: Imhotep
- German: Imhotep
- Greek: Ιμχοτέπ
- Hungarian: Imhotep
- Irish: Imhóteip
- Japanese: イムホテプ
- Polish: Imhotep
- Russian: Имхоте́п
- Slovak: Imhotep

## People named Imhotep

- Equanimeous St. Brown, American football player from the United States

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.