MahalakshmifIndian, Hinduism, Hindi From Sanskrit महालक्ष्मी (Mahalakshmi) meaning "great sign", derived from Sanskrit महा (maha) "great" and लक्ष्मी (lakshmi) "sign, mark".
MahantimMormon An inscription on a cliff in Manti was written by someone who called himself Mahanti, the second king of the Lamanites. It was dated about A.D. 600, which would have been centuries after the Lamanites came into being... [more]
MahapajapatifSanskrit Means "leader of a great assembly", derived from Sanskrit महा (mahā) meaning "great, large" combined with प्रजा (prajā) meaning "subjects, people" and पति (patī) meaning "husband, lord, master"... [more]
MāhealanifHawaiian Means "heavenly haze" from Hawaiian māhea "haze" and lani "sky, heaven". This was the name of the night of the full moon in the ancient Hawaiian calendar.
MahonrimMormon In the Book of Mormon, the brother of Jared is the most prominent person in the account given in the beginning (chapters 1–6) of the Book of Ether. Some years after the publication of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith mentioned that Mahonri Moriancumer was the name of the brother of Jared.
MahsatifPersian Alternate transcription of Persian مهستی (see Mahasti), interpreted as being derived from Persian ماه (mah) meaning "moon, month" and Indian loanword sati meaning "virtuous lady"... [more]
MahsurifMalay, Folklore From Malay maha meaning "great" and suri meaning "queen". This is the name of a legendary woman from the Malaysian island of Langkawi who was executed for adultery.
Ma-ifKorean From Sino-Korean 麻 (ma) meaning "hemp" combined with 怡 (i) meaning "happiness; delight". This name can be formed using other hanja combinations as well.
Mãim & fVietnamese Means "a long time, always" in Vietnamese.
MaifWelsh (Rare) Welsh form of May as well as a direct adoption of Welsh mai "(month of) May".
MaifKorean From Sino-Korean 麻 (ma) meaning "hemp" combined with 怡 (i) meaning "happiness; delight". This name can be formed using other hanja combinations as well.
MaichimJapanese From Japanese 眞 (ma) meaning "real, actual, true, genuine" combined with 壱 (ichi) meaning "one". Other kanji combinations are possible.
MaimaifJapanese From Japanese 舞 (mai) meaning "dance" combined with 々, a phonetic character indicting a duplication of the beginning kanji. Other kanji combinations are possible.
MairangifMaori Etymology uncertain, possibly from the Maori mai meaning "for ages, for a long time" and rangi meaning "day" or "sky, heaven".
MairenifRomani A Romani name found in the 1800s. Its origin and meaning are uncertain, there is, however, a theory that it might be related to Marina or Maren.
MairenuifPolynesian, Tahitian Polynesian name, composed by "Maire", that is the Tahitian name of the flower Alyxia Stellata and "nui", meaning "big", "great".
MairifJapanese From Japanese 舞 (mai) meaning "dance" combined with 李 (ri) meaning "plum", 里 (ri) meaning "village" or 莉 (ri) meaning "white jasmine". Other combinations of kanji characters are possible.
MaitreyifSanskrit, Indian (Rare) Allegedly means "friendly one", this was the name of a late Vedic Indian philosopher.
Maitrim & fThai, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada Means "friendship, friendliness" in Sanskrit. It is used as a masculine name in Thailand while it is feminine in India.
MajusifIndonesian From Arabic مَجُوسِيّ (majūsiyy) meaning “of or related to Zoroastrians”, which is in turn derived from مَجُوس (majūs) meaning “Magians, Zoroastrians”. Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi was a Persian physician and psychologist from the Islamic Golden Age.
MajvifSwedish Combination of Maj 2 and the Old Norse name element vé "devoted, dedicated".
MakaimHawaiian Makai is an adverb in the Hawaiian language combining the directional particle ma with Hawaiian kai meaning "ocean". It literally means "toward or by the sea, seaward". It is sometimes used as a given name, particularly within the Hawaiian Islands but is also found within the continental United States.
MakavelimEnglish (American, Modern, Rare) Derived from the surname of Florentine author and philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. This spelling was popularized by American rapper Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) after being used for one of his albums in 1996.
MakdébkimAlgonquian Means "black partridge" in the Potawatomi language. This was the name of a chief of the Illinois River.
Makinim & fSwahili Means "of good character" or "strength of character" in Swahili.
MakintifIndigenous Australian, Pintupi Of Australian Aboriginal origin (Pintupi, to be precise), the meaning of this name is not yet known to me at the moment. A known bearer of this name was Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930-2011), an Australian Aboriginal painter.
Makishim & fJapanese From Japanese 真 (ma) meaning "true, reality", 喜 (ki) meaning "rejoice" combined with 紫 (shi) meaning "purple; violet". Other kanji combinations are possible.
MakomifJapanese From Japanese 真 (ma) meaning "true, reality", 子 (ko) meaning "child" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
MakruhifArmenian From the Armenian մաքուր (makur) meaning "clean, innocent" and the feminine suffix ուհի (uhi).
MaliawašḫifAncient Near Eastern Ancient Assyrian feminine given name recorded in 18th century BC Assyrian documents from Kültepe. It may derive from the name of the goddess Maliya and potentially (w)ashib meaning "dweller, person who dwells in" or "of".
MalikimArabic, Malay, Indonesian From the name of the Maliki school (madhhab) of Sunni Islam, which was founded by 8th-century Islamic jurist and theologian Malik ibn Anas.
MallothimBiblical Meaning "My fullness," a Kohathite Levite, one of the sons of Heman the Levite (I Chronicles 25:4), and chief of the nineteenth division of the temple musicians I Chronicles 25:26
Malulanim & fHawaiian Hawaiian unisex name meaning "heavenly shade" or "heavenly protection".
MalulifSpanish Diminutive of María Luisa. This was used by Fernando Fernán Gómez for a character in his play Bicycles Are for the Summer (1977; original Spanish title Las bicicletas son para el verano).
MamaimMedieval Turkic It may come from the name Muḥammad paired with the nickname Kičik ("little"). Whether "Mamai" is a variation of that name or an additional, "folk" name, remains unclear.
MamberimGeorgian Mythology This is the name of the lord of wolves in Georgian mythology. He was worshiped in Svaneti and other mountainous regions.
MameifChinese From Chinese 麻 (má) meaning "hemp, flax" combined with 美 (měi) meaning "beauty", 梅 (méi) meaning "plum, apricot", 莓 (méi) meaning "berry, strawberry", 玫 (méi) meaning "rose, gemstone", or 妹 (mèi) meaning "younger sister"... [more]
MamphakifSotho The name Mamphaki originates from the Northern Region of South Africa within the Bapedi people. The name was originally given to the first wife of Ntsetse Mailula - Mamphaki 'aMasekela. It was passed down within the Mailula family down to this day.
Ma'murbibifUzbek Derived from ma'mur meaning "thriving" and bibi meaning "learned woman".
ManabifJapanese From Japanese 学 (manabi) meaning "education, study, learn" or from Japanese 摩 (ma) meaning "to rub, to scour, to grind", 名 (na) meaning "name" or 愛 (mana) meaning "love, affection" combined with 美 (bi) meaning "beautiful" or 日 (bi) meaning "day, sun, Japan"... [more]
Managim & fJapanese From the meaning of Ma “Benefit, profit” (益) Na “Fish” (魚) and Gi “Ceremony” (儀). This name was most known for being the real name of Gyokko.
ManelifPersian From the Manzadarani dialect meaning, "stay with me."
ManfeifChinese From the Chinese 曼 (màn) meaning "long, extended, vast, beautiful" combined with 斐 (fěi) meaning "graceful, elegant". Other character combinations are possible.
Mang-mifKorean From Sino-Korean 望 (mang) meaning "hope" and 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other hanja character combinations can also form this name.
MangraimHistory Meaning uncertain. This was the name of the first king of the Lan Na kingdom, the founder of Chiang Rai and a partial namesake of its eponymous province in what is now northern Thailand.
MañjarīfSanskrit Means "pearl; flowering bead" as well as "garland, cluster of blossoms" in Sanskrit.
ManjimJapanese The name "Manji" is a rare Japanese given name. Although there are several other kanji that can be used to spell this name, I've listed only a few here-- the first is "万二" or "Ten Thousandth Second" or "Ten Thousandth Second Son", possibly referring to a long life to a second son... [more]
Mantirim & fAymara Means "incoming, entering" in Aymara.
ManuariimTahitian Combination of Tahitian manu "bird" and ari'i "king, chief, prince". A known bearer is Manuarii Hauata (1994-), a footballer from French Polynesia.
MaomifJapanese From Japanese 真 (ma) meaning "true, reality", 央 (o) meaning "centre, middle" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.
MaorimJapanese (Rare) From Japanese 真 (ma) meaning "true, reality", 男 (o) meaning "male" and 里 (ri) meaning "village". Other kanji combinations can perform this name.
MaorifObscure (Modern) Borrowed from New Zealand Maori māori (“aborigine, native; normal, ordinary, plain”).
Maradim & fGeorgian Derived from the Georgian adjective მარადი (maradi) meaning "eternal, everlasting". For men, this name can also be the nominative case form of Marad.... [more]
Marduk-shapik-zerimBabylonian Means "Marduk (is) outpourer of seed", deriving from the god Marduk, and the Akkadian elements šapāku ("to pour on / to lavish") and zēru ("seed ; offspring ; sown, arable land").
MareifUpper German Southern German variant of Marie. Sometimes, rarely though, also used as a diminutive form of Maria.
Marif & mKorean Mari has its origins from the ancient Korean language. It's original meaning is "mountaintop" but it also means "good, the best, the first..."
MaricifJapanese Mythology, Chinese Mythology Marici is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun. She is known as Molizhitian (摩利支天) or Molizhitian Pusa (摩利支天菩萨) in China and Marishi-ten (摩利支天?) in Japan and in Tibetan as 'Odzer Canma, "Woman Endowed with Rays of Light" (Wylie: 'od zer can ma)... [more]
MarigorrifBasque Mythology, Basque Epithet for the moon. This name is possibly derived from a combination of the name of Mari 3, one of the key figures in Basque mythology, and the adjective gorri "red, rosé, Virginian, fierce".
MarimifJapanese From Japanese 茉 (ma) meaning "white jasmine", 里 (ri) meaning "village" combined with 美 (mi) meaning "beautiful". Other kanji combinations are possible.