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MAAMÄGI EstonianMaamägi is an Estonian surname meaning "land/rural mountain".
MAANDI EstonianMaandi is an Estonian surname derived from "maandus" meaning "earth/ground".
MAAREND EstonianMaarend is an Estonian surname derived from either "maa rendileandja" meaning "landholder", or "maa rendilevõtja" meaning "land tenant".
MAASIK EstonianMaasik is an Estonian surname derived from "maasikas", meaning "strawberry".
MA'AYAN Hebrew (Rare)Means "spring of water" or "fountain" in Hebrew, this is more common as a given name than a surname
MABBETT EnglishFrom a pet-form of the medieval female personal name
Mabbe, a shortened form of
Amabel (ultimately from Latin
amābilis "lovable"). See also
Mapp MACCAA ScottishMacCaa has many clan associations; the most prominent being with the Stuarts of Bute, the Clan MacKay, the Clan MacFarlane, the Clan MacDonald and Clan Galloway. The name is a phonetic variation of MacKay, meaning 'son of Aoh (ie the champion)'...
[more] MACCHIA ItalianTopographic name from Italian
macchia "thicket", "scrub" (from Latin
macula) and Habitational name from any of various places named Macchia, as for example Macchia in Trapani province, Sicily.
MACDUFF Scottish GaelicFrom the ancient Scottish Gaelic
Mac duib meaning "son of the black/dark man." This name may have originated as a ethnic term about the native Scots used by Viking conquestors during the later half of the First Millenium...
[more] MACGILLIS ScottishThe MacGillis surname is a very rare surname from Scotland. It means "Mac Giolla Iosa', and translates to "son of the servant of Jesus". The surname was first found in Perthshire in central Scotland....
[more] MACGINTY IrishPatronymic surname from the original Irish Gaelic form 'mac an tsaoi' meaning "son of the scholar". Notable namesake is Irish rugby player
Alan Leon "AJ" MacGinty.
MAC GIOLLA CHUDA IrishMeaning ‘son of the servant of (Saint)
Chuda’, a personal name of unexplained origin. This was the name of a 7th-century abbot-bishop of Rathin in County Westmeath....
[more] MAC GIOLLA IASACHTA IrishMeans "son of the strange youth", from Irish Gaelic
iasachta "loan" "foreign", hence denoting to a boy who transferred to another family for fosterage, a common custom in ancient Ireland.
MACGRATH IrishFirst found in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Munster, where they held a family seat from ancient times....
[more] MACGYVER ScottishProminently used in the action TV series of the same name, and the title character of that show, Angus MacGyver.
MACHEN EnglishOccupational name for a stonemason, Anglo-Norman French
machun, a Norman dialect variant of Old French
masson (see
Mason).
MACHI SicilianUnexplained. It may be from the Albanian personal name Maqo. Derivation from a Greek name ending in -akis, which has been suggested, is implausible.
MACHI Japanese (Rare)町 (machi) means 'town' or 'street'. Some occurrences in America could be shortened versions of longer names beginning with this element, not common in Japan.
MACHNICKI PolishHabitational name for someone from Machnice in Wrocław voivodeship.
MACHRACH ScottishMeans "campestral" in Scottish Gaelic, possibly a name for someone who lived or worked in an open field.
MACIEJEWSKI Polishhabitational name for someone from any of various places called Maciejowa, Maciejów, or Maciejowice, all named with the personal name
Maciej MACIUPA Polish (Anglicized, ?)Ukrainian/Polish (Historically Galicia/Western Ukraine/Austro-Hungary); although it is often seen spelt this Anglicized way; due to the changing land-borders and occupation of land throughout history, it has been spelt with a slightly different transliteration pronunciation in Cyrillic (phonetic sound in Cyrillic is 'ts' as opposed to 'ch').
MACKINAW IrishFirst found in County Monaghan located in the Northern part of the Republic of Ireland in the province of Ulster, at Truagh where they were known as the Lords of Truagh....
[more] MACKINTOSH ScottishThe Mackintosh can is a Scottish clan from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The chiefs of the clan are the Mackintoshes of Mackintosh. Another branch of the clan, the Mackintoshes of Mackintosh-Torcastle, are the chiefs of Clan Chattan, a historic confederation of clans.
MACLEHOSE ScotsDerived from the Gaelic Mac Gille Thamhais, meaning 'son of the gillie of
Tammas', Tammas being the Scots form of
Thomas.
MACMILLAN Scottish, EnglishA Scottish family name. The origin of the name is said to derive from the origin of the Scottish Clan MacMillan. The progenitor of the Clan was said to be Airbertach, Hebridean prince of the old royal house of Moray...
[more] MACON French, GermanFrench: See
Maçon. An occupational name for a mason, French
maçon. Habitational name from places so called in Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Aube, the Côte d’Or, Gers, and Deux-Sères. ...
[more] MACONOCHIE ScottishThe surname of Alexander Maconochie, a Scottish naval officer, geographer, and penal reformer.
MACORIG ItalianAn italian surname that in fact comes from slovene minority near Udine, it should be written Macoric'...
[more] MACPHERSON ScottishAnglicized form of the Gaelic "Mac an Phearsain", the prefix "mac" denoting son of, plus "pearsan" parson, hence "son of the parson"....
[more] MACTAVISH ScottishScottish surname from the elements "Mac" ("son of") and "Tavish" (Scottish form of "Thomas").
MACWHORTER Scottish (Anglicized)Anglicized form the surname of the Gaelic 'Mac Chruiteir', meaning 'player of the crwth', a string instrument primarily used in Celtic music. A famous bearer of this surname is the American clergyman, Alexander MacWhorter.
MADAL EstonianMadal is an Estonian surname meaning "low-lying" and "shoal".
MADDALONI ItalianIt should came from the toponym Maddaloni (Campany, South Italy) which name originates from the Arabic term "magdhal" meaning fortress, stronghold. The last name Maddaloni is typical of the area that includes the provinces of Naples, Caserta and Benevento.
MADE EstonianPatronymic surname taken either from the female name
Magdaleena or the male name
Matteus.
MADEIRAS PortugueseCame from the Portuguese Madeira word "wood" or "timber". perhaps the portuguese version of the surname
Woods or someone who's from the Portuguese island Madeira
MADELEY EnglishEnglish: habitational name from places so named in Shropshire and Staffordshire, named in Old English with the personal name
Mada +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
MADERA Spanishdescribing someone who lived or worked in a forest. the word Madera means "wood" in Spanish. Spanish meaning of surname
Wood MADIGA Indian, TeluguTelugu occupational name for a leather worker, a job historically considered polluting and impure in India, where the surname belongs to
Dalit, or "Untouchables" - members of the lowest caste.
MADONIA ItalianHabitational name from any of numerous places named Madonia, or a regional name for someone from Madonie in Sicily.
MADONNA ItalianFrom the person name
Madonna, from donna meaning "lady", bestowed in honor of the Virgin Mary.
MADRASWALA Indian (Parsi)From
Madras (presently Chennai), the name of the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
MADREN EnglishProbably a habitational name from Madron in Cornwall. Alternatively, possibly from Madryn in Gwynedd, Wales.
MADRIGAL Spanish"Madrigal" comes from from the Venetian
madregal "simple, ingenuous," from Late Latin
matricalis "invented, original," literally "of or from the womb," from
matrix (gen.
matricis) "womb."
MADRIZ Spanish, Catalanpatronymic surname meaning "son of Madrileño"; given to a person that came from Madrid, Spain.
MADUSHANKA SinhaleseDerived from Sanskrit मधु
(mádhu) meaning “honey, sweet” combined with शङ्का
(śaṅkā) meaning “doubt, uncertainty”.
MAEBARA JapaneseMaebara is an uncommon Japanese surname that has more than one meaning, depending on the characters used to write it. The first and most common spelling is with the characters for "Before" (前) and "Original" (原)...
[more] MAEJIMA JapaneseMae means "Front, Forward" and Jima means "Island". This is a variant of Maeshima.
MAEKAWA JapaneseFrom Japanese 前
(mae) meaning "front, forward" and 川
(kawa) meaning "river, stream".
MÄEORG EstonianMäeorg is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill glen".
MÄEPEA EstonianMäepea is an Estonian surname meaning "hill head" ("top of the hill").
MAESTRE Portuguese, SpanishOccupational name from old Spanish and Portuguese
maestre meaning 'master', 'master craftsman', 'teacher'.
MÄETALU EstonianMäetalu is an Estonian surname meaning "mountain/hill farmstead".
MAEYAMADA JapaneseMae means "Front, Forward", Yama means "Mountain", and Da means "Feild, Rice Patty. The source is in the notes.
MAFFIONE ItalianPossibly a derivative of the given name
Maffeo. This surname is from the Puglia region of Barletta, southern Italy.
MAFFRET Frenchbeleived to originated in{ NICE, france} in the late 19th century, emmigration from france to london,{stepney}, where the surname was mistakenly added an extra letter "T" resulting in the surname MAFFRETT
MAGAÑA SpanishThis indicates familial origin within the eponymous Castilian municipality.
MAGGIO ItalianFrom a nickname or personal name from the month of May,
maggio, from Latin
Maius (
mensis), from
Maia, a rather obscure goddess of fertility, whose name is derived from the same root as
maius "larger" and
maiestas "greatness"...
[more] MAGHERY IrishName for a resident of the village of town of Maghery in Northern Ireland.
MAGHRIBI Arabic (Maghrebi)Derived from Arabic
المغرب (al-Maghrib) meaning "the west", also referring to the country of Morocco. It could be used to refer to a Moroccan person or (in English) someone from the Maghreb region of Northern Africa.
MÄGI EstonianEstonian surname from the word
mägi meaning "hill".
MAGINDARA CebuanoMagindara is a name of a demigoddess who turned into a mermaid, it is also the name of mythical creatures in the Philippines that are man-eating mermaids
MAGSAYSAY Filipino, Tagalog, CebuanoDerived from Tagalog or Cebuano
saysay meaning "to tell, to relate, to narrate". A notable bearer was
Ramon Magsaysay (1907-1957), who served as the seventh President of the Philippines.
MAHALAH Africanzambian (tumbuka) name meaning intelligent. "mwana wa mahalah" means intelligent child
MAHAPATRA Indian, OdiaFrom the Sanskrit महत्
(mahat) "great, large, big" possibly combined with पात्र
(pātra) "drinking-vessel, goblet, bowl, cup".
MAHARANA Indian, OdiaFrom a title meaning "king of kings" or "great king", derived from Sanskrit महा
(mahā) meaning "great, large, big" combined with राणा
(rana), a Rajput title meaning "king" (see
Rana (2))...
[more] MAHER Irish (Rare)The originally spelling was "O'Meachair" which means the 'kindly' or the 'generous'. The Maher family resided in the O'Carrol...
[more] MAHLAPUU EstonianMahlapuu is an Estonian surname derived from "mahlakas"; meaning "lush", "sappy" and "malapert" "tree/wood"; "lush tree".
MAHLOY English (American)Mahloy is a misspelling of Malloy by Charles Malloy's (b. 1898, Scotland) elementary school teacher in the Ireland. The surname Malloy is derived from the pre 10th century Old Gaelic name O'Maolmhuidh, meaning the descendant of the Great Chief.
MAI ChineseChinese surname meaning "wheat,barley".
MAIA PortugueseHabitational name from any of several places named Maia, especially one in Porto.
MAIÀ CatalanHabitational name from Maià de Montcal, a village in Girona, or any of several other places named with Maià, which is of pre-Roman origin.
MAIDE EstonianMaide is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "maidel" meaning "gudgeon (a type of freshwater fish)".
MAIDRE EstonianMaidre is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "maidel" meaning "gudgeon" (a type of fish)".
MAIMERI ItalianSurname of italian painter and entrepreneur Giovanni (Gianni) Maimeri.
MAINE FrenchFrench topographic name from Old French
maine ‘dwelling’, ‘residence’, ‘abode’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named.
MAIRENA SpanishThis indicates familial origin within either of 3 Andalusian localities: Mairena, Municipality of Nevada, Mairena del Alcor, or Mairena del Aljarafe.
MAITLAND English, ScottishPossibly from
Mautalant, the name of a place in Pontorson, France meaning "inhospitable" or "bad temper" in Norman French (ultimately from Late Latin
malum "bad" and
talentum "inclination, disposition"), which was so named because of its unproductive soil; or perhaps it was originally a nickname for an ungracious individual, derived from the same source.
MAITLIS JewishMeans "son of
Meytl", a Yiddish female personal name, literally "little
Meyte", a Yiddish female personal name derived from Middle High German
maget "maid".
MAIVEL EstonianMaivel is an Estonian surname possibly derived from "maidel" meaning "gudgeon" (a type of freshwater fish).
MAJ Polish, JewishSurname adopted with reference to the month of May, Polish maj. Surnames referring to months were sometimes adopted by Jewish converts to Christianity, with reference to the month in which they were baptized or in which the surname was registered.
MAJERLE SloveneSlovene surname Majerle, a variant of the Polish, Czech, and Slovak Majer, which was a status name for "steward, bailiff, tenant farmer, or village headman", from the German
Meyer.
MAK Chinese (Cantonese)Transliterated from the Chinese surname
Mai meaning "wheat, barley". A bearer of this surname is Dennis Mak. He is a singer from Hong Kong and was a former member of the Cantopop group Boy'z.