Boy Names That Start With M
These are the 102 boy names that start with M, have reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880, and still go to boys rather than girls today. Ranked by the number of boys given each name in 2025, most common first.
All 102 names
- Mateo
- Michael
- Matthew
- Mason
- Miles
- Maverick
- Micah
- Myles
- Milo
- Malachi
- Matteo
- Matias
- Max
- Maxwell
- Messiah
- Maddox
- Miguel
- Malakai
- Muhammad
- Milan
- Mark
- Marcus
- Malcolm
- Maximus
- Maximiliano
- Mathias
- Martin
- Marshall
- Miller
- Marco
- Manuel
- Matthias
- Marcelo
- Moshe
- Malik
- Mario
- Mack
- Musa
- Makai
- Moses
- Marcos
- Mohamed
- Morgan
- Mohammad
- Moises
- Maximilian
- Mohammed
- Memphis
- Mauricio
- Major
- Mac
- Marvin
- Marcel
- Murphy
- Mitchell
- Melvin
- Mathew
- Maurice
- Marlon
- Mekhi
- Mike
- Marc
- Monroe
- Markus
- Micheal
- Milton
- Monte
- Merritt
- Monty
- Myron
- Marquis
- Meyer
- Morris
- Marlin
- Mickey
- Marquise
- Merlin
- Mervin
- Marion
- Murray
- Mahlon
- Marty
- Merle
- Matt
- Mose
- Marques
- Michel
- Merrill
- Millard
- Mitchel
- Maynard
- Mitch
- Mat
- Mcarthur
- Melville
- Melvyn
- Merton
- Milford
- Minor
- Mont
- Mortimer
- Morton
Also starting with M, and now given almost only to girls: Madison, Margaret, Mary, Mackenzie, Mckinley, Mildred, Minnie
Boy names that start with M in the 2025 data
M is the fourth most common first letter for boys born in 2025: 126,252 of them, 7.4% of every boy in the file. It held fourth place a decade ago too, and its share has grown from 7.1% to 7.4%.
This list holds the 102 of those names that reached the top 500 as a boy's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to boys rather than girls. The most common today is Mateo, #8 with 11,045 boys in 2025. 8 of the 102 are in this year's top 100, and 92 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Seven other names starting with M are left out — Madison, Margaret and Mary among them. Each reached the top 500 among boys at some point, but fewer than one in ten children given it over the last ten years was a boy. Together they account for 104,035 of those 126,252 boys — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.
The fastest climber among them is Musa, up from #930 in 2015 to #469 in 2025. Mario has gone the other way, from #285 to #438. The shortest name here is Mac at 3 letters, the longest Maximiliano at 11.
Questions about boy names that start with M
What is the most popular boy name that starts with M?
Mateo. 11,045 boys were given the name in 2025, which put it at #8 nationally.
How many boy names start with M?
102 have reached the top 500 as a boy's name and still go to boys today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 126,252 boys born in 2025 — 7.4% of the total — were given a name starting with M.
Are boy names that start with M getting more popular?
M is gaining ground. It was fourth among first letters for boys a decade ago with 7.1% of births, and it is fourth in 2025 with 7.4%.