Shenouda ( arz, شنودة ) is an Egyptian male name, which is commonly used among Egyptian Christians (the

Copts Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are C ...

). The name comes from cop, Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ (') and is a composite of the Egyptian words: ' ( "son"), ' ( "of") and ' ( "God"), thus meaning ''the son of God''. The difference in pronunciation and transcription of the last part of the name is because of differing pronunciations in the main Coptic dialects for the

Coptic alphabet The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language. The repertoire of glyphs is based on the Greek alphabet augmented by letters borrowed from the Egyptian Demotic and is the first alphabetic script used for the Egyptian la ...

. Some of the most famous people with this name include: *

Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite Shenoute of Atripe, also known as Shenoute the Great or Saint Shenoute the Archimandrite (Coptic: ; (347-465 or 348-466) was the abbot of the White Monastery in Egypt. He is considered a saint by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and is one of t ...

Popes of Alexandria

* Pope Shenouda I of Alexandria (r. 859–880) *

Pope Shenouda II of Alexandria Pope Shenouda II of Alexandria was the 65th Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. 11th-century Coptic Orthodox popes of Alexandria {{OrientalOrthodox-clergy-stub ...

(r. 1032–1046) * Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria (r. 1971–2012) {{human name disambiguation, Shenouda Coptic given names