Names starting with M
1,285 Names found
From Hebrew מָעַך (maʿaḵ) meaning "to press, to crush" [1]. Both male and female characters in the Old Testament bear this name.
A form of Maacah found in some versions of the Old Testament.
A Dutch diminutive of Maria.
The Hebrew variant of Maacah.
The form of Mahlah used in the Greek and Latin Old Testament.
From Egyptian mꜣꜥt meaning "truth, virtue, justice". Maat (or Ma'at) was the Egyptian goddess personifying truth and balance. She was the consort of T...
Used by William Shakespeare for the queen of the fairies in his play Romeo and Juliet (1596). Of uncertain origin, it may derive from Mabel or the...
A medieval feminine form of Amabilis. This spelling and Amabel were common during the Middle Ages but became rare after the 15th century. It was...
A variation of Mabel. It also coincides with the French phrase ma belle meaning "my beautiful".
Possibly from Old Cornish mab meaning "son". A 6th-century Cornish saint bore this name, said to be one of the children of Brychan Brycheiniog. She...
From the name of a barrio (district) in Seville, which took its name from a temple possibly named after a person called Macarius (see Macario). The...
Possibly from a Celtic root meaning "plain, field". This was the name of an Irish war goddess, sister of the Morrígan and Badb. A few other figures...
The Hebrew variant of Mahalath.
The Hebrew variant of Mahlah.
Derived from a Scottish surname, which is an Anglicized version of the Gaelic Mac Coinnich, originating from the given name Coinneach. It gained...
The female form of Macrinus. Two early saints from Anatolia bore this name: Macrina the Elder and her granddaughter Macrina the Younger.
The surname originates from several French towns named Massy. These places were initially named after a Gallo-Roman personal name that was Latinized...
The Portuguese variant of Magdalena.
From the Latvian name for a type of flowering plant known as cleavers or bedstraw in English.
Signifies "girl" in German. It is not used as a given name in Germany itself.
Diminutive of Madeline or Madison.
Diminutive form of Madeline or Madison.
The English variant of Madeleine. It is the name of the heroine in a series of children's books by Austrian-American author Ludwig Bemelmans, first...
A French diminutive of Madeleine, now more common as a Dutch name.
Diminutive of Margaret.
From Sanskrit मधु (madhu) meaning "honey, sweet". This is another name for Chaitra, the first month of the Hindu year (occurring in March and April).
Diminutive of Madeline or Madison.