The names listed here are used in English-speaking countries. Modern spelling variations of traditional names are not included. See also about English names.

MABEL   f   English
Medieval feminine form of AMABILIS... [more]

MABELLE   f   English
Variant of MABEL... [more]

MABLE   f   English
Variant of MABEL

MACIE   f   English
Variant of MACY

MACK   m   English
From a surname which was originally a shortened form of various Gaelic surnames beginning with Mac or Mc (from Gaelic mac meaning "son")... [more]

MACKENZIE   f & m   English
From the Gaelic surname Mac Coinnich, which means "son of COINNEACH"... [more]

MACY   f   English
From an English surname, originally a Norman French place name, which meant "domain belonging to Maccius"... [more]

MADALYN   f   English
Variant of MADELINE

MADDIE   f   English
Diminutive of MADELINE or MADISON

MADELEINE   f   French, English
French form of MAGDALENE

MADELINE   f   English, French
English form of MAGDALENE... [more]

MADELYN   f   English
Variant of MADELINE

MADGE   f   English
Diminutive of MARGARET

MADISON   f & m   English
From an English surname meaning "son of MAUD"... [more]

MADLYN   f   English
Variant of MADELINE

MADONNA   f   English
From a title of the Virgin Mary meaning "my lady" in Italian... [more]

MAE   f   English
Variant of MAY... [more]

MAGDALEN   f   English
Variant of MAGDALENE

MAGDALENA   f   German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Slovene, Czech, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, English
Latinate form of MAGDALENE

MAGDALENE   f   German, Danish, English, Biblical, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
From a title which meant "of Magdala"... [more]

MAGGIE   f   English
Diminutive of MARGARET

MAGNOLIA   f   English
From the English word magnolia for the flower, which was named for the French botanist Pierre Magnol.

MAHALA   f   English
Variant of MAHALAH or MAHALATH... [more]

MAHALIA   f   English
Variant of MAHALA

MAJOR   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from the given name Mauger, an Old French form of the Germanic name Malger meaning "council spear"... [more]

MALACHI   m   Biblical, Hebrew, English
Means "my messenger" or "my angel" in Hebrew... [more]

MALCOLM   m   Scottish, English
From Scottish Mael Coluim which means "disciple of Saint COLUMBA"... [more]

MALCOM   m   English
Variant of MALCOLM

MALINDA   f   English
Variant of MELINDA

MALVINA   f   Scottish, English
Created by the poet James MacPherson in the 18th century for a character in his Ossian poems... [more]

MAMIE   f   English
Diminutive of MARY or MARGARET

MANDI   f   English
Diminutive of AMANDA

MANDY   f   English
Diminutive of AMANDA

MANLEY   m   English
From an English surname, originally a place name, meaning "common clearing" in Old English.

MANNY   m   English
Short form of EMMANUEL

MANUEL   m   Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, English, Late Greek (Latinized)
Spanish and Portuguese form of EMMANUEL... [more]

MARALYN   f   English
Variant of MARILYN

MARCI   f   English
Diminutive of MARCIA

MARCIA   f   English, Spanish, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of MARCIUS... [more]

MARCIE   f   English
Diminutive of MARCIA

MARCUS   m   Ancient Roman, English, Biblical (Variant)
Roman praenomen, or given name, which was probably derived from the name of the Roman god MARS... [more]

MARCY   f   English
Diminutive of MARCIA

MARGARET   f   English
Derived from Latin Margarita, which was from Greek μαργαριτης (margarites) meaning "pearl", probably ultimately a borrowing from Sanskrit... [more]

MARGARETTA   f   English
Latinate form of MARGARET

MARGE   f   English
Diminutive of MARGARET

MARGERY   f   English
Medieval English form of MARGARET

MARGIE   f   English
Diminutive of MARGARET

MARGO   f   English
Variant of MARGOT

MARIA   f & m   Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Frisian, Greek, Polish, Romanian, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Corsican, Basque, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin, Old Church Slavic
Latin form of Greek Μαρια, from Hebrew מִרְיָם (see MARY)... [more]

MARIAH   f   English
Variant of MARIA... [more]

MARIAN (1)   f   English
Variant of MARION (1)... [more]

MARIANNA   f   Italian, English, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak, Polish, Greek
Combination of MARIA and ANNA... [more]

MARIANNE   f   French, English, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Finnish
Originally a French diminutive of MARIE... [more]

MARIE   f   French, Czech, German, English, Scandinavian
French and Czech form of Maria (see MARY)... [more]

MARIEL   f   English
Diminutive of MARY influenced by MURIEL... [more]

MARILOU   f   French, English, Dutch
Combination of MARIA and LOUISE

MARILYN   f   English
Combination of MARY and lyn... [more]

MARILYNN   f   English
Variant of MARILYN

MARINDA   f   English
Either a diminutive of MARY or a variant of MIRANDA

MARION (1)   f   French, English
Medieval French diminutive of MARY... [more]

MARION (2)   m   English
From a French surname which was derived from MARION (1)... [more]

MARISA   f   Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese combination of MARIA and LUISA.

MARISSA   f   English
Variant of MARISA

MARJE   f   English
Diminutive of MARJORIE

MARJORIE   f   English
Medieval variant of MARGERY, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram... [more]

MARJORY   f   English
Variant of MARJORIE

MARK   m   English, Russian, Biblical
English and Russian form of MARCUS... [more]

MARLA   f   English
Shortened form of MARLENE

MARLEEN   f   Dutch, English
Dutch form and English variant of MARLENE

MARLENA   f   English, Polish
Latinate form of MARLENE

MARLENE   f   German, English
Blend of MARIA and MAGDALENE... [more]

MARLIN   m   English
Variant of MERLIN

MARLON   m   English
Possibly from Marcelon, a French diminutive of MARCEL... [more]

MARLYN   f & m   English
Feminine form or variant of MARLIN

MARNIE (1)   f   English
Variant of MARNA... [more]

MARSHA   f   English
Variant of MARCIA

MARSHAL   m   English
Variant of MARSHALL

MARSHALL   m   English
From a surname which originally denoted a person who was a marshal... [more]

MARTHA   f   English, Scandinavian, Greek, Biblical, Old Church Slavic, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
From Aramaic מרתא (marta') meaning "lady, mistress"... [more]

MARTIE   m   English
Diminutive of MARTIN

MARTIN   m   English, French, German, Scandinavian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Bulgarian
From the Roman name Martinus, which was derived from Martis, the genitive case of the name of the Roman god MARS... [more]

MARTINA   f   German, Scandinavian, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Czech, Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Ancient Roman
Feminine form of Martinus (see MARTIN)... [more]

MARTY   m   English
Diminutive of MARTIN

MARVA   f   English
Feminine form of MARVIN

MARVIN   m   English, German
Probably from an English surname which was derived from the given name MERVYN... [more]

MARY   f   English, Biblical
Usual English form of Maria, which was the Latin form of the New Testament Greek names Μαριαμ (Mariam) and Μαρια (Maria) - the spellings are interchangeable - which were from the Hebrew name מִרְיָם (Miryam)... [more]

MARYANN   f   English
Combination of MARY and ANN

MARYANNE   f   English
Combination of MARY and ANNE (1)

MARYBETH   f   English
Combination of MARY and BETH

MARYLOU   f   English
Combination of MARY and LOU

MARYLYN   f   English
Variant of MARILYN

MASON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "stoneworker", from an Old French word of Germanic origin (akin to Old English macian "to make").

MAT   m   English
Short form of MATTHEW

MATHEW   m   English
Variant of MATTHEW

MATHILDA   f   English, Swedish, Ancient Germanic
Variant of MATILDA

MATILDA   f   English, Swedish, Finnish, Slovak
From the Germanic name Mahthildis meaning "strength in battle", from the elements maht "might, strength" and hild "battle"... [more]

MATT   m   English
Short form of MATTHEW

MATTHEW   m   English, Biblical
English form of Ματθαιος (Matthaios), which was a Greek form of the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattityahu) meaning "gift of YAHWEH"... [more]

MATTIE   f & m   English
Diminutive of MATILDA or MATTHEW

MATTY   m   English
Diminutive of MATTHEW

MAUD   f   English, Dutch
Usual medieval form of MATILDA... [more]

MAUDE   f   English
Variant of MAUD

MAUDIE   f   English
Diminutive of MAUD

MAURA (2)   f   Irish, Scottish, English
Anglicized form of MÁIRE... [more]

MAUREEN   f   Irish, English
Anglicized form of MÁIRÍN

MAURICE   m   English, French
From the Roman name Mauritius, a derivative of MAURUS... [more]

MAURINE   f   English, Irish
Variant of MAUREEN

MAVERICK   m   English
Derived from the English word maverick meaning "independent"... [more]

MAVIS   f   English
From the name of the type of bird, also called the song thrush, ultimately derived from Old French... [more]

MAX   m   German, English, Scandinavian, Dutch
Short form of MAXIMILIAN (or sometimes of MAXWELL in English).

MAXIMILIAN   m   German, English, Scandinavian
From the Roman name Maximilianus, which was derived from MAXIMUS... [more]

MAXIMILLIAN   m   English
Variant of MAXIMILIAN

MAXINE   f   English
Feminine form of MAX... [more]

MAXWELL   m   English
From a Scottish surname meaning "Mack's stream", from the name Mack, a short form of the Scandinavian name MAGNUS, combined with Old English wella "stream"... [more]

MAY   f   English
Derived from the name of the month of May, which derives from Maia, the name of a Roman goddess... [more]

MAYA (2)   f   English
Variant of MAIA (1)... [more]

MAYBELLE   f   English
Variant of MABEL

MAYME   f   English
Possibly a variant of MAMIE

MAYNARD   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the Germanic given name MEGINHARD.

MEAGAN   f   English
Variant of MEGAN

MEAGHAN   f   English
Variant of MEGAN

MEG   f   English
Medieval diminutive of MARGARET

MEGAN   f   Welsh, English
Welsh diminutive of MARGARET... [more]

MEGHAN   f   English
Variant of MEGAN

MEL   m & f   English
Short form of MELVIN, MELANIE, MELISSA, and other names beginning with Mel.

MELANIE   f   English, German, Dutch
From the French form of the Latin name Melania, derived from Greek μελαινα (melaina) meaning "black, dark"... [more]

MELBA   f   English
From the surname of the Australian opera singer Nellie Melba (1861-1931)... [more]

MELINA   f   English
Combination of Mel (from names such as MELANIE or MELISSA) and the popular name suffix ina.

MELINDA   f   English
Combination of Mel (from names such as MELANIE or MELISSA) with the popular name suffix inda... [more]

MELISSA   f   English, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Means "bee" in Greek... [more]

MELODY   f   English
From the English word melody, which is derived (via Old French and Late Latin) from Greek μελος (melos) "song" combined with αειδω (aeido) "to sing".

MELVA   f   English
Perhaps a feminine form of MELVIN

MELVILLE   m   English
From a Scottish surname which was originally from a French place name meaning "bad settlement"... [more]

MELVIN   m   English
From a Scottish surname which probably originated as a variant of MELVILLE.

MELVYN   m   English
Variant of MELVIN

MERCY   f   English
From the English word mercy, ultimately from Latin merces "wages, reward", a derivative of merx "goods, wares"... [more]

MEREDITH   m & f   Welsh, English
From the Welsh name Maredudd or Meredydd, possibly meaning "great lord" or "sea lord"... [more]

MERILYN   f   English
Variant of MARILYN

MERLE   f & m   English
Variant of MERRILL or MURIEL... [more]

MERLIN   m   Welsh Mythology, English
Form of the Welsh name Myrddin (meaning "sea fortress") used by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12th-century Arthurian tales... [more]

MERLYN   m & f   English
Variant of MERLIN, sometimes used as a feminine form... [more]

MERRILL   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from the given name MURIEL.

MERRITT   m   English
From an English surname, originally from a place name, which meant "boundary gate" in Old English.

MERRY (1)   f   English
From the English word merry, ultimately from Old English myrge... [more]

MERTON   m   English
From a surname which was derived from a place name meaning "town on a lake" in Old English.

MERV   m   English
Short form of MERVYN

MERVIN   m   Welsh, English
Variant of MERVYN

MERVYN   m   Welsh, English
From the Welsh name Merfyn, which possibly meant "marrow famous"... [more]

MERYL   f   English
Variant of MURIEL, perhaps influenced by the spelling of the name CHERYL... [more]

MIA   f   Scandinavian, Dutch, German, English
Scandinavian, Dutch and German diminutive of MARIA

MICAH   m   Biblical, English
Contracted form of MICAIAH... [more]

MICHAEL   m   English, German, Czech, Biblical, Biblical Latin
From the Hebrew name מִיכָאֵל (Mikha'el) meaning "who is like God?"... [more]

MICHAELA   f   German, Swedish, English, Czech, Slovak
Feminine form of MICHAEL

MICHEAL   m   English
Variant of MICHAEL

MICHELLE   f   French, English
French feminine form of MICHEL... [more]

MICK   m   English
Short form of MICHAEL

MICKEY   m & f   English
Diminutive or feminine form of MICHAEL... [more]

MICKY   m   English
Diminutive of MICHAEL

MIKE   m   English
Short form of MICHAEL

MIKKI   f   English
Strictly feminine variant of MICKEY

MILBURN   m   English
From an English surname which was from a place name meaning "mill stream" in Old English.

MILDRED   f   English
From the Old English name Mildþryð meaning "gentle strength", derived from the elements milde "gentle" and þryð "strength"... [more]

MILES   m   English
From the Germanic name Milo, introduced by the Normans to England in the form Miles... [more]

MILFORD   m   English
From an English surname which was originally derived from various place names all meaning "ford by a mill" in Old English.

MILLARD   m   English
From an occupational English surname which meant "guardian of the mill" in Old English.

MILLICENT   f   English
From the Germanic name Amalasuintha, composed of the elements amal "work, labour" and swinþ "strength"... [more]

MILLIE   f   English
Diminutive of MILLICENT or CAMILLA

MILO   m   English
Latinized form of MILES... [more]

MILTON   m   English
From an English surname which was from a place name meaning "mill town" in Old English... [more]

MINA (1)   f   English, Italian
Short form of WILHELMINA and other names ending in mina... [more]

MINDY   f   English
Diminutive of MELINDA

MINERVA   f   Roman Mythology, English
Possibly derived from Latin mens meaning "intellect", but more likely of Etruscan origin... [more]

MINNIE   f   English
Diminutive of WILHELMINA

MIRANDA   f   English
Derived from Latin mirandus meaning "admirable, wonderful"... [more]

MIRIAM   f   Hebrew, English, German, Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Original Hebrew form of MARY... [more]

MISSIE   f   English
Diminutive of MELISSA

MISSY   f   English
Diminutive of MELISSA

MISTI   f   English
Variant of MISTY

MISTY   f   English
From the English word misty, ultimately derived from Old English... [more]

MITCH   m   English
Short form of MITCHELL

MITCHELL   m   English
From a surname, itself derived from the given name MICHAEL.

MO   f & m   English
Short form of MAUREEN, MAURICE, MORRIS, and other names beginning with a similar sound.

MOE (1)   m   English
Short form of MAURICE or MORRIS, or sometimes of other names beginning with a similar sound.

MOLLIE   f   English
Variant of MOLLY

MOLLY   f   English
Diminutive of MARY... [more]

MONA (1)   f   Irish, English
Anglicized form of MUADHNAIT... [more]

MONICA   f   English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Late Roman
Meaning unknown, most likely of North African or Phoenician origin... [more]

MONNA   f   English
Variant of MONA (1)

MONROE   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname meaning "the mouth of the Roe" in Gaelic... [more]

MONTE   m   English
Diminutive of MONTGOMERY

MONTGOMERY   m   English
From an English surname meaning "GUMARICH's mountain" in Norman French... [more]

MONTY   m   English
Variant of MONTE

MOREEN   f   Irish, English
Anglicized form of MÓIRÍN... [more]

MORGAN (1)   m & f   Welsh, English, French
From the Old Welsh masculine name Morcant, which was possibly derived from Welsh mor "sea" and cant "circle"... [more]

MORRIS   m   English
Usual medieval form of MAURICE

MORT   m   English
Short form of MORTON or MORTIMER

MORTIMER   m   English
From an English surname which was derived from a place name meaning "still water" in Old French.

MORTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "moor town" in Old English.

MORTY   m   English
Diminutive of MORTON or MORTIMER

MOSES   m   English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
From the Hebrew name מֹשֶׁה (Mosheh) which is most likely derived from Egyptian mes meaning "son", but could also possibly mean "deliver" in Hebrew... [more]

MURIEL   f   English, French, Irish
Anglicized form of MUIRGEL or its Breton cognate... [more]

MURPHY   m & f   Irish, English
From an Irish surname which was derived from Ó Murchadha meaning "descendent of MURCHADH".

MURRAY   m   Scottish, English
From a Scottish surname which was derived from the region in Scotland called Moray.

MYLES   m   English
Variant of MILES

MYRA   f   English
Created by the 17th-century poet Fulke Greville... [more]

MYRON   m   English, Ancient Greek
Means "myrrh" in Greek... [more]

MYRTIE   f   English
Diminutive of MYRTLE

MYRTLE   f   English
Simply from the English word myrtle for the evergreen shrub, ultimately from Greek μυρτος (myrtos)... [more]

NADIA (1)   f   French, English, Italian
Variant of NADYA (1) used in the Western world... [more]

NAN   f   English
Diminutive of ANNE (1) and a short form of NANCY.

NANCY   f   English
Previously a medieval diminutive of ANNIS, though since the 18th century it has been a diminutive of ANNE (1)... [more]

NANETTE   f   English
Diminutive of ANNE (1)

NANNIE   f   English
Diminutive of ANNE (1)

NANNY   f   English
Diminutive of ANNE (1)

NAOMI (1)   f   English, Hebrew, Biblical
From the Hebrew name נָעֳמִי (Na'omiy) meaning "pleasantness"... [more]

NARELLE   f   English (Australia and New Zealand)
Meaning unknown... [more]

NAT   m   English
Short form of NATHAN or NATHANIEL

NATALIE   f   French, English, German
From the Late Latin name Natalia, which meant "Christmas Day" from Latin natale domini... [more]

NATASHA   f   Russian, English
Russian diminutive of NATALYA... [more]

NATE   m   English
Short form of NATHAN or NATHANIEL

NATHAN   m   English, French, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Means "giver" in Hebrew... [more]

NATHANIEL   m   English, Biblical (Variant)
Variant of NATHANAEL... [more]

NEAL   m   English
Variant of NEIL

NED   m   English
Diminutive of EDWARD or EDMUND... [more]

NEELY   m   English
From a Scottish surname, an Anglicized form of Mac an Fhilidh meaning "son of the poet" in Gaelic.

NEIL   m   Irish, Scottish, English
From the Gaelic name Niall, which is of disputed origin, possibly meaning "champion" or "cloud"... [more]

NELDA   f   English
Possibly an elaboration of NELL using the popular name suffix da.

NELL   f   English
Medieval diminutive of ELEANOR, ELLEN (1) or HELEN... [more]

NELLA   f   English
Elaborated form of NELL

NELLE   f   English
Variant of NELL

NELLIE   f   English
Diminutive of NELL

NELLY   f   English
Diminutive of NELL

NELSON   m   English
From an English surname meaning "son of NEIL"... [more]

NENA   f   English
Variant of NINA (1)

NESSA (1)   f   English
Short form of VANESSA and other names ending in nessa.

NETTA   f   English
Short form of names ending in netta.

NETTIE   f   English
Diminutive of names ending in nette, such as ANNETTE and JEANETTE.

NEVA   f   English
Short form of GENEVA

NEVADA   f   English
From the name of the American state, which means "snow-capped" in Spanish.

NEWT   m   English
Short form of NEWTON

NEWTON   m   English
From a surname which was originally derived from a place name meaning "new town" in Old English... [more]