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Magdalena Μαγδαλένα Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, Sicilian, Romanian, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene
From the given name Magdalena.

Makriyannis Μακρυγιάννης Greek
Notable bearer of this name is General Yannis Makriyannis (1797-1864), was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author.

Makrynoris Greek

Malakopoulos Greek

Malatestas Greek
Means "bad head" in Italian, from the Italian surname Malatesta, also found in Greece.

Malokinis Μαλοκίνης Greek

Mamasoulas Greek

Manakos Greek

Mandrapilias Greek
This surname is found in Sparta, Greece.... [more]

Mangourakis Μαγγουρακις Greek

Manikas Greek
Occupational name for a maker of handles (e.g. of knives), from medieval Greek manikion "sleeve", "handle", from Latin manicae "sleeve, manacle".

Maniotis Greek (?)

Manioudakis Greek

Manolas Μανώλας Greek
Derived from the word "magnolia" denoting a flower named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.

Manos Greek
From the name Manos.

Manouilidis Μανουηλίδης Greek
Means "son of Manouil" in Greek.

Manousos Μανούσος Greek
Surname associated with the name Manouel in Crete. Another possible origin is a Hellenized version of the Venetian surname Manuzio.

Manoussakis Greek

Mantalos Μάνταλος Greek
From Greek μάνταλο (mantalo) "latch".

Manthopoulou Greek

Mantis Greek (Cypriot)

Mantoudi Greek

Maragkoudakis Greek

Maravellias Greek

Maraziotis Greek

Marcou Μάρκου Greek (Cypriot)
Alternate transcription of Greek Μάρκου (see Markou).

Margaritis Μαργαρίτης Greek
From given name Margaritis.

Marinaki Greek

Marioglou Μαριογλου Greek
Means "son of Marios" in Greek.

Mariolis Greek

Markides Greek (Cypriot)

Markopoulos Μαρκόπουλος Greek
Means "son of Markos".

Markoras Greek
The Greek version of the Italian surname Marcoran.

Markos Μάρκος Greek
From the given name Markos.

Markou Μάρκου Greek
Means "son of Markos".

Marnezos Μαρνεζος Greek

Marougkas Greek

Martinis Μαρτίνης Greek, Italian
Greek form of Martini. Also used in Italy.

Martinos Greek
Derived from the given name Martinos which is Martin in English.

Masalis Μασαλισ Greek (Cypriot)
Cypriot surname, often used in rural parts of Cyprus. Died out in Greece, there are no more living people with it anymore.

Masouras Μασούρας Greek

Masouris Μασούρης Greek

Masourou Greek

Massara Italian, Greek
Either a feminine form of Massaro or from the equivalent occupational or status name in medieval Greek, (massaras meaning ‘peasant’ or ‘share cropper’) which is from the word massaria meaning ‘small farm’.

Mastorakos Greek

Matinoulis Greek

Matsouka Ματσούκα Greek (Cypriot)
Means "Bat" from Latin maxuca.

Matthaiou Ματθαίου Greek
Means "son of Matthaios".

Mattheou Ματθαίου Greek
Variant of Matthaiou.

Matthiou Ματθιου Greek
Means "son of Matthias".

Mavridis Μαυρίδης Greek
Means "son of Mavros.

Mavrikiou Μαυρικίου Greek (Cypriot)
Means "son of Mavrikios".

Mavris Greek
From the Greek word mavros (black).

Mavrogiannis Μαυρογιάννης Greek
Literally means "black Giannis", derived from Greek μαύρος (mavros) "black, Moorish" and Giannis.

Mavrokordatos Μαυροκορδάτος Greek
Means "black Kodratos".

Mavromichalis Μαυρομιχάλης Greek
Means "black Michalis (Michael)" in Greek. In Mani, it is said to derive from an orphan named Μιχάλης (Michalis). Because of the dark clothing worn during times of mourning, orphans were often called μαύρος (mavros) meaning "black".

Mavropanos Μαυροπάνος Greek
Literally means "black cloth", derived from Greek μαύρος (mavros) "black, Moorish" and πανί (pani) "cloth".

Mavros Μαύρος Greek
Means "black, dark" in Greek, originally used as a nickname for a person with a dark complexion.

Mavrothalassitis Greek

Mazoukas Μαζουκας Greek

Megas Greek
It means great in Greek.

Melas Greek
Possibly from the names of several characters in Greek mythology, including a son of Poseidon who the Nile River was originally named after.

Melissenos Greek
Surname associated with the greek word melissa (μέλισσα), which means bee, perhaps a beekeeper.

Mentis Greek
From the ancient greek name Mentios.

Merkati Μερκάτης Greek

Merkouris Μερκούρης Greek
Possibly a Greek cognate of Italian Mercurio, which is ultimately derived from Latin Mercurius.

Messinis Μεσσήνης Greek
Habitational name for someone who resides in Messene (present day Messina).

Metalos Greek

Metoikidis Greek

Metzou Greek

Michaelides Μιχαηλίδης Greek (Cypriot)
Alternate transcription of Michailidis chiefly used in Cyprus.

Michail Greek
A common last name in Greece. Probably from the Archangel Michael who appeared to the Virgin Mary with a lily.

Michalentzakis Greek

Michalidis Μιχαλιδης Greek
Means "Son of Michael".

Michalopoulos Μιχαλόπουλος Greek
Means "son of Michail".

Micheletos Μιχελέτος Greek
Derived from the given name Michail.

Mikhailidis Μιχαηλίδης Greek

Mikhalopoulos Μιχαλωπουλος Greek

Mikos Polish, Hungarian, Greek
From a derivative of a personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Polish Mikolaj, Slovenian Miklavž, or Hungarian Miklós.... [more]

Mikroulakis Greek

Miliaras Greek

Milios Greek

Miliotis Μηλιώτης Greek

Mintzias Greek

Mires Greek
good, honest

Misirlou Greek
Misirlou (Μισιρλού), due to the suffix "ou", is the feminine form (in Greek) of Misirlis (Μισιρλής- a surname) which comes from the Turkish word Mısırlı, which is formed by combining Mısır ("Egypt" in Turkish, borrowed from Arabic مِصر‎ Miṣr) with the Turkish -lı suffix, literally meaning "Egyptian".

Mitrakis Greek

Mitropoulos Μητρόπουλος Greek
Means "son of Mitros".

Mitsakis Greek

Moises Μωυσης Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Greek, Jewish
From the given name Moisés.

Monomachos Greek
Meaning gladiator or 'the one that fights alone.' A surname of a Byzantine family from Nicomedia (Izmit).

Morakis Μωράκης Greek

Moralis Μόραλης Greek
Meaning unknown, possibly a Greek form of the Spanish surname Morales.

Morells Greek
One meaning/explanation of the surname Morells is it's an Americanization of the Greek name surname Mariolis.

Morfas Greek

Moscha Greek

Mouchtaridis Greek

Mouchtaris Μουχτάρης Greek
Greek form of Mukhtar, from Arabic mukhtar (مختار) meaning "the chosen".

Mouratis Μουρατις Greek
Possibly a patronymic from the Turkish given name Murat.

Mourouzis Greek
Belonged to an important Greek family of Pontic origin.

Mourtzakis Greek

Mourtzis Greek

Mousouros Greek

Moustakas Greek

Moustaki Μουστακί Greek
Moustaki is Derived from the Greek word for ‘moustache’, μουστάκι.

Moustakopoulos Μουστακόπουλος Greek

Myrotis Greek