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Maison
Maison is a French word name meaning simply "house" or "home", an unusual choice for a given name, since most word names evoke abstract qualities or nature rather than architectur…
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Majesty
Majesty is a Latin-rooted word name: from the Latin majestas, meaning "greatness," that carries more weight than almost any other word in the English language. It's the title give…
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Makaio
Makaio is the Hawaiian form of Matthew — from the Hebrew Mattityahu , meaning "gift of God" — and it carries that ancient meaning in a form shaped entirely by the Hawaiian languag…
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Mauro
Mauro is the Italian and Spanish form of Maurus: a Latin name meaning "dark-skinned" or "Moorish," originally a geographical descriptor for people from North Africa. With 6,525 SS…
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Mayson
Mayson is an Old French-rooted name, a phonetic respelling of Mason — from the Old French maçon , meaning "stoneworker" or "bricklayer." With 4,745 SSA records and a 2012 peak, Ma…
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Meghan
Meghan is a Welsh variant of Margaret — via the Welsh Megan, meaning "pearl" — that got its own separate identity in American naming through a distinctive -han ending that set it…
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Milagros
Milagros is a Spanish name meaning "miracles" — from Latin miraculum (wonder, miracle). It is a traditional Catholic devotional name honoring the Virgin Mary under the title Nuest…
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Milah
Milah is a Hebrew name: from the root meaning "word" or "speech," related to divine utterance, that also functions as a variant spelling of Mila, the Slavic name meaning "gracious…
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Monroe
Monroe is a Scottish Gaelic surname derived from the Gaelic Munreabhadh , possibly meaning "mouth of the Roe" (a river in Northern Ireland), carried to Scotland by early settlers.…
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Myah
Myah is a creative spelling of Mia — itself a shortened form of Maria, from the Hebrew Miriam meaning "beloved" or possibly "sea of bitterness" — that adds visual distinctiveness…
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Nami
Nami is a Japanese name with multiple possible meanings depending on the kanji used: most commonly "wave" (波) or "beautiful" (奈美), arriving in American SSA data with a 2024 peak a…
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Nashly
Nashly is a contemporary Spanish-influenced American name that likely derives from the place-name Nashville filtered through Spanish phonetics, or is a creative combination of the…
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Neithan
Neithan is a modern spelling variant of Nathan — the Hebrew Natan , meaning "he gave" or "gift of God." With just 535 SSA records and a 2024 peak, Neithan is among the rarest name…
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Nelly
Nelly is an Old English name traditionally used as a pet form of Eleanor or Helen — Eleanor from Old French, ultimately from the Greek Helenē (bright, shining); Helen from the sam…
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Noam
Noam is a Hebrew name meaning "pleasantness," "delight," or "kindness," from the same root as Naomi, that has been growing in American Jewish communities and beyond as parents dis…
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Noel
Noel is a French name meaning "Christmas" or "birth": from the Latin natalis, referring to the nativity. With 15,120 SSA records and a 1987 peak, Noel has been used for both boys…
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Nyra
Nyra is listed with Greek origin — likely connected to nira (plowed field) or traced through the nymph tradition — but in practice it functions as a modern coinage that parents ar…
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Orson
Orson is a Latin-origin name — from the medieval Latin Ursus meaning "bear" — that spent most of the 20th century as an almost exclusively literary and cinematic name, inseparable…
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Osvaldo
Osvaldo is the Spanish and Italian form of Oswald, a Germanic name composed of os ("god") and wald ("rule") — meaning "divine ruler" or "god's power." With 14,394 SSA records and…
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Patricia
Patricia is the Latin feminine form of Patricius — from patricius , meaning "noble" or "of patrician rank," the aristocratic class of ancient Rome. With over 1.5 million SSA recor…
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