Names starting with M
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From Thai มาลี (mali) meaning "flower", from Sanskrit मालिन् (mālin), or Thai มะลิ (mali) meaning "jasmine", from Sanskrit मल्लि (malli).
From an English word meaning "harmful, evil", from Latin maleficens. It is the name of the villain in the animated Disney film Sleeping Beauty (1959).
An alternative transliteration of Arabic مالك (see Maalik), and also the standard Persian transliteration.
A Swedish and Spanish contracted form of Magdalena. In Spanish, it can also be a contracted form of María Elena.
From the Old Norse name Málmfríðr, from an uncertain first element (possibly malmr "ore") combined with fríðr "beautiful, beloved". A 12th-century...
The Polish variant of Margaret.
Diminutive of Małgorzata.
The Hawaiian variant of Maria. This name saw a spike in popularity in 2009, likely due to the eldest daughter (born 1998) of American president...
Signifies "king" in Arabic. In Islamic tradition, الملك (al-Malik) is one of the 99 names of Allah. This can also be another way of transliterating ما...
Signifies "wave, sea" in Greenlandic [1].
The Hebrew variant of Malchiah.
An Estonian diminutive of Magdaleena, Maria, or Maarja, now used independently.
A medieval English diminutive of Mary.
The surname originates from the Old French term maleüré, which translates to "unfortunate" [1]. It gained popularity in the 1980s following the...
Signifies "bright pledge", from Old Breton mach "pledge, hostage" and lou "bright, brilliant". A 6th-century Welsh saint bore this name, supposedly a...
Derived from an Irish surname, it is the English adaptation of Ó Maoil Eoin, which translates to "descendant of a follower of Saint John".
A shortened form of Marie-Louise.
A Danish shortened form of the Old German name Helmold. Austrian author Rainer Maria Rilke used this name for the title character of his novel The Not...
Latinized form of the Greek name Μαλθάκη (Malthake), from μαλθακός (malthakos) meaning "soft, tender". One of the wives of the 1st-century BC king Her...
The Greek variant of Malthace.
Signifies "praise" in Bemba.
From the name of a genus of flowering plants, of Latin origin, known as mallow in English.
Invented by the Scottish poet James MacPherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossian poems. He probably intended it to mean "smooth brow",...
Signifies "ill will" in Italian. Shakespeare invented this name for a pompous character in his comedy Twelfth Night (1602).
Signifies "love, affection", from Sanskrit ममता (mamatā) meaning "attachment, feeling of ownership, selfishness".
Signifies "praised, commended, acclaimed" in Arabic, from the root مدح (madaḥa) meaning "to praise, to commend".
From Japanese 真 (ma) "real, genuine" or 麻 (ma) "flax" combined with 美 (mi) "beautiful". Other kanji combinations may also form this name.
Diminutive of Mary or Margaret.