There is not one pharaoh that means "great house." The word pharaoh is Egyptian for the phrase "great house."
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It means "great house." That is what the Egyptian pharaohs used to call their palaces. Then, eventually the Egyptian rulers got the title pharaoh.
It doesn't stand for anything. It was just a term for a ruler, a king.
The ancient Egyptian term pr-'3 (usually expressed as per-aa in modern studies) means "great house" - the palace of the ruling pharaoh. By extension it came to mean the king himself, but it was not the only term meaning king or pharaoh.
Thutmose III was the first ruler of Egypt to be called pharaoh. It means "great house" and originally referred to the king's palace but during Thutmose's reign in the New Kingdom (ca. 1479-1425 BCE), it referred to the person who was king and the son of Ra, the sun god.
I know someone called Pharaoh and it means 'A ruler or leader'