Baby boy names beginning with M – with origins and meanings

• Origin: African American
• Meaning: do not deceive

2. Mabry

• Origin: Cornish
• Meaning: mud hill; also used as a girl’s name

3. Mace

• Origin: Old French
• Meaning: club or mace; symbolic of power

4. Macon

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: to create or perform

5. Maddison

• Origin: English
• Meaning: variant of Mathieson, meaning son of Matthew or Muade; also used a girl’s name
• Also: Madison

6. Madoc

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: fortunate

7. Magnus

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: great
• Also: Manus (Irish form)

8. Maitland

• Origin: French
• Meaning: possibly a reference to Mautalant, a town in France

9. Makepeace

• Origin: English
• Meaning: derived from the medieval English of mak(en), to make, and pais, peace.

10. Malachi

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: messenger of God

11. Malcolm

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: disciple of Columba
• Also: Mal, Calum

12. Malise

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: servant of Jesus

13. Mallory

• Origin: French
• Meaning: the unlucky one

14. Malone

• Origin: Irish
• Meaning: servant of Saint John

15. Manasseh

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: bringing forgetfulness

16. Manfred

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: man of peace
• Also: Manny

17. Manish

• Origin: Sanskrit
• Meaning: intelligence

18. Manley

• Origin: English
• Meaning: shared wood; a surname used as a first name

19. Manny

• Origin: Spanish
• Meaning: God is with us
• Also: Emanuel, Immanuel, Manfred, Manuel

20. Manuel

• Origin: Spanish
• Meaning: form of Emanuel

21. Marcellus

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: dedicated to Mars
• Also:Emanuel

22. Marcus

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: Latin form of Mark

23. Marius

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: derived from Mars, the god of war
• Also: Mario (Italian form)

24. Mark

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: possibly derived from the name of Mars, the god of war
• Also: Marcus, Marc (French form), Marcel (French form)

25. Marland

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: by the lake

26. Marlon

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: little hawk

27. Marlow

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: driftwood; also used as a girl’s name
• Also: Marlowe

28. Marmaduke

• Origin: Irish
• Meaning: servant of Madoc
• Also: Duke

29. Marques

• Origin: African American
• Meaning: noble
• Also: Marqis, Marquez

30. Marsden

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: valley causing a boundary

31. Marsh

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: Swamp

32. Marshall

• Origin: Old French
• Meaning: someone who looks after horses

33. Marston

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: town near the marsh

34. Martin

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: warlike
• Also: Marty, Martyn (Welsh form)

35. Marvin

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: friend of the sea
• Also: Mervyn

36. Marwood

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: lake near the woods

37. Mashawn

• Origin: African American
• Meaning: vivacious

38. Mason

• Origin: Englsih
• Male: stone worker

39. Matheson

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: gift of God
• Also: Mathieson

40. Matthew

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: gift of God
• Also: Mat, Matt, Matthias, Mathias (Greek forms)

41. Matthias

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: gift of God
• Also: Marty, Martyn (Welsh form), Matthew

42. Maurice

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: a Moor
• Also: Morrie, Maurie, Mo, Morris

43. Maverick

• Origin: English
• Meaning: trailblazer

44. Maximilian

• Origin: Latin
• Meaning: The greatest
• Also: Maximilien, Max, Maxie

45. Maxwell

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: great stream; surname used as a first name
• Also: Max

46. Mayer

• Origin: Latin/Hebrew
• Meaning: bright, shining, larger
• Also: Meyer, Myer

47. Maynard

• Origin: Norman/English
• Meaning: strong, hardy

48. Mayo

• Origin: Irish
• Meaning: yew tree plain

49. Meguru

• Origin: Japanese
• Meaning: blessing

50. Melbourne

• Origin: English
• Meaning: mill stream

51. Melchior

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: king of light; one of the three wise men who worshipped the baby Jesus in Bethlehem

52. Melville

• Origin: Norman
• Meaning: derived from any of several places called Malleville in Normandy, France

53. Melvin

• Origin: English
• Meaning: gentle lord
• Also: Melvyn, Mel

54. Mercer

• Origin: English/Scottish
• Meaning: merchant

55. Mercury

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: in Greek mythology, Mercury was the messenger to the gods

56. Meredith

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: great leader
• Also: Meridith, Merry

57. Merlin

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: sea fortress; small falcon

58. Merrill

• Origin: English
• Meaning: pleasant hill; surname used as a first name
• Also: Merryll, Meryl

59. Merton

• Origin: English
• Meaning: settlement by the lake

60. Mervyn

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: sea fort
• Also: Mervin, Merfyn, Marvin

61. Micah

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: who is like Jehovah

62. Michael

• Origin: Hebrew
• Meaning: who is like God
• Also: Mike, Mick, Micky, Michel (French form), Miguel (Portuguese and Spanish forms), Mikhail (Russian form), Mischa

63. Milan

• Origin: Indian
• Meaning: union

64. Miles

• Origin: Old German
• Meaning: uncertain but is possibly merciful
• Also: Myles, Milo

65. Milford

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: the mill by the ford

66. Miller

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: one who grinds grain
• Also: Milner

67. Milne

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: occupant of the mill

68. Milton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: mill town

69. Milward

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: keeper of the mill

70. Mischa

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: keeper of the mill
• Also: Mikhail

71. Mitchell

• Origin: English
• Meaning: who is like God
• Also: Mitch

72. Mo

• Origin: American
• Meaning: dark skinned
• Also: Maurice

73. Modred

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: A counsellor

74. Mohan

• Origin: Sanskrit
• Meaning: attractive

75. Monroe

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: from red marsh
• Also: Monro, Munro, Munroe

76. Montague

• Origin: French
• Meaning: pointed hill
• Also: Montagu, Monty

77. Montgomery

• Origin: Norman
• Meaning: derived from the place Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery in Normandy, Fra
• Also: Montgomerie, Monty

78. Montrale

• Origin: African American
• Meaning: fussy

79. Moray

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: lord and master
• Also: Murray

80. Morgan

• Origin: Welsh
• Meaning: born of the sea

81. Morley

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: meadow on the moor

82. Mortimer

• Origin: French
• Meaning: dead or stagnant marshland water
• Also: Mort and Morty

83. Morton

• Origin: Old English
• Meaning: settlement on or by the marsh

84. Moses

• Origin: probably Egyptian, not Hebrew
• Meaning: Uncertain

85. Mosi

• Origin: Egyptian
• Meaning: born first

86. Mozart

• Origin: Italian
• Meaning: to cut off or to take one’s breath away from the Italian word, mozzare

87. Muhammad

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: to praise: the name of the prophet who founded the Islamic religion
• Also: Mohammad and Mohammed

88. Muhsin

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: Charitable

89. Muir

• Origin: Scottish
• Meaning: beside the moor

90. Mungo

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: beloved; the name of the patron saint of Glasgow

91. Munir

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: brilliant
• Also: Muneer

92. Murad

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: desired

93. Murdo

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: seaman

94. Murdock

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: leader of the sea, sailor
• Also: Murdoch

95. Murray

• Origin: Gaelic
• Meaning: lord and master
• Also: Moray

96. Mustafa

• Origin: Arabic
• Meaning: chosen

97. Mykelti

• Origin: African American
• Meaning: he who is like God

98. Myron

• Origin: Greek
• Meaning: fragrant

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