Muslim Boy Names Starting with M
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Mazin
سحابة تحمل المطر
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Rain-bearing cloud; an Arabic personal name often glossed as 'that which brings rain' or 'one associated with rain'. | Boy | Arabic |
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Mashhood
مشهود
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Observed, witnessed, noted; one who is made conspicuous (from Arabic مشهود) | Boy | Arabic (used historically in South Asia and among Urdu-speaking communities) |
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Muhanad
سيف مشحوذ، نصل فولاذي
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Sharpened sword, steel blade | Boy | Arabic |
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Matar
مطر — المطر؛ هطول الأمطار
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Rain; precipitation (Arabic: مطر). The common Arabic noun for rain used as a given name to evoke blessing and fertility. | Boy | Arabic |
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Mahran
مهران: مشتق من الفارسية مهر بمعنى الشمس أو المودة، والمضاف -ان بمعنى «من مهر» أو مشبه بالشمس
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Derived from Persian مهر (mehr) 'sun' or 'affection' with the suffix -ān, meaning 'of Mehr', 'sunlike' or 'belonging to affection' | Boy | Persian (used among Persianate and Bengali Muslim communities) |
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Melik
ميليك: مشتق من المثلث العربي م-ل-ك عبر الاستخدام التركي؛ بمعنى الحاكم أو الملك.
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From the Arabic triliteral root M-L-K via Turkic adaptation; in Turkish/Anatolian usage Melik functions as 'sovereign' or 'king' — often preserved as a title-turned-name. | Boy | Turkic (via Arabic Malik) |
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Mecnun
مجنون (دیوانہ، عشق میں دیوانہ)
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From Arabic majnūn (مَجْنُون) meaning 'possessed, mad, consumed (by love)'; in Turkish and Persianate literary tradition Mecnun denotes the archetypal lover (as in Qays ibn al-Mulawwah, called Majnun Layla). | Boy | Arabic (literary); attested in Turkish and Persianate literary traditions |
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Ma’shuq
معشوق
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Beloved, the loved one; derived from Arabic/Persian معشوق (maʿshūq) meaning 'object of love'. | Boy | Arabic/Persian (widely used in Persianate, Urdu, Pashto poetic registers and East African Muslim circles) |
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Muzayyan
مُزَيَّن
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Adorned; ornamented; beautified — derived from the Arabic verb/participle pattern expressing the state of being decorated (root ز-ي-ن). | Boy | Arabic |
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Mokrane
مقران/مُكران: اسم أمازيغي يُشير إلى العظمة أو الكِبَر
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Great, large; a Berber/Amazigh personal name historically used in North Africa | Boy | Amazigh (Berber) — North Africa (Kabyle/Algerian usage in Muslim contexts) |