Do we have any record of commoners' names in Ancient Egypt?

by ahp327
Astrogator

What do you mean by record? We have many common (meaning non-elite) names that survive in inscriptions or papyri, what exactly are you looking for?

allchickpeas

Yeah, there are many. My personal favorite ancient Egyptian was this guy named Paneb. The papyrus that describes him was written by Ammenakht (his family members are named Nebnefer and Neferhotep--not relevant to the story, but more examples of names). It's basically just a giant callout of the chief workman of the area, accusing him of bribery, adultery, theft, tons of stuff. At one point he had his workers construct the columns to his own tomb rather than, ya know, the one that they were supposed to be building. All in all just the worst. But on the whole, the names of commoners were pretty similar to the ones you might've heard in stories about royalty or anything like that. Here's just a simple Wikipedia list of known ancient Egyptians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Egyptians#C