What is "neferneferuaten"

Ankhkheperure-mery-Neferkheperure/ -mery-Waenre/ -mery-Aten Neferneferuaten was a name used to refer to either Queen Meritaten or more likely Queen Nefertiti.

The archaeological evidence relates to a woman who reigned as pharaoh toward the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her gender is confirmed by feminine traces occasionally found in the name and by the epithet Akhet-en-hyes ("Effective for her husband"), incorporated into one version of her second cartouche.

She is to be distinguished from the king who used the name Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare-Djeser Kheperu but without epithets appearing in either cartouche.

Neferneferuaten refers to several members of the Amarna royal family of the 18th dynasty

• Neferneferuaten Nefertiti, Queen Nefertiti took on the full name Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti in ca year 5 of the reign of her husband Akhenaten
• Neferneferuaten Tasherit is the fourth daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.
• Neferneferuaten is the name of a female ruler or co-regent who coincided with the last years of Akhenaten or just after his reign.
• In older texts it may refer to Smenkhkare.