What I think is that pharaoh Akhenaten was a brother of pharaoh Tuthmosis. It was proven scientifically they are related. Tuthmosis is the pharaoh of the Prophet Moses time. The name Akhenaten, Akhen mean slave and atan mean god. Like a name similar to Abdullah. It's not his real name. His real name was something like Amenhotep IV. I feel that prophet Moses name is somewhat drive from the powerful pharaoh Tuthmosis whose wife was the one adopted the Prophet Moses.
We can see in the Quran that in the pharaoh's family there are people who are monotheist and they are very powerful in the royal family.
40:28 A believing man among Pharaoh's people, who was concealing his belief, said, "How can you kill a man just for saying, `My Lord is God,' and he has shown you clear proofs from your Lord? If he is a liar, that is his problem, and if he is truthful, you benefit from his promises. Surely, God does not guide any transgressor, liar.
40:29 "O my people, today you have kingship and the upperhand. But who will help us against God's judgment, should it come to us?" Pharaoh said, "You are to follow only what I see fit; I will guide you only in the right path."
40:30 The one who believed said, "O my people, I fear for you the same fate as the previous opponents.
40:31 "The opponents of Noah, and `?d, Thamoud, and others who came after them. God does not wish any injustice for the people.
40:32 "O my people, I fear for you the Day of Summoning.
40:33 "That is the day when you may wish to turn around and flee. But nothing will protect you then from God. Whomever God sends astray, nothing can guide him."
40:34 Joseph had come to you before that with clear revelations, but you continued to doubt his message. Then, when he died you said, "God will not send any other messenger after him. God thus sends astray those who are transgressors, doubtful.
40:35 They argue against God's revelations, without any basis. This is a trait that is most abhorred by God and by those who believe. God thus seals the hearts of every arrogant tyrant.
40:36 Pharaoh said, "O H?m?n, build for me a high tower, that I may reach out and discover.
40:37 "I want to reach the heaven, and take a look at the god of Moses. I believe he is a liar." Thus were the evil works of Pharaoh adorned in his eyes, and thus was he kept from following (the right) path. Pharaoh's scheming was truly evil.
40:38 The one who believed said, "O my people, follow me, and I will guide you in the right way.
40:39 "O my people, this first life is a temporary illusion, while the Hereafter is the eternal abode."
40:40 Whoever commits a sin is requited for just that, and whoever works righteousness - male or female - while believing, these will enter Paradise wherein they receive provisions without any limits.
40:41 "O my people, while I invite you to be saved, you invite me to the hellfire.
40:42 "You invite me to be unappreciative of God, and to set up beside Him idols that I do not recognize. I am inviting you to the Almighty, the Forgiver.
40:43 "There is no doubt that what you invite me to do has no basis in this world, nor in the Hereafter, that our ultimate return is to God, and that the transgressors have incurred the hellfire.
40:44 "Some day you will remember what I am telling you now. I leave the judgment of this matter to God; God is the Seer of all the people."
40:45 God then protected him from their evil schemes, while the people of Pharaoh have incurred the worst retribution.