_Manchester._ _Manig-ceaster_, from _manig_, many, much; _ceaster_, city,
fort, castle, town. Many castles.
_Manning._ _Mann_, Mann; _ing_, offspring. Son of Mann.
_Marx._ _Marcs_, from _marc_, a mark; _s_ for _sun_, a son. Son of Marc.
_Mase._ _Mase_, a whirlpool, a gulf.
_Maslin._ _Mæslen_, or _maslin_, brass.
_Max._ _Max_, noose, mesh, net, snare.
_Maxfield._ _Max_, Max; _feld_, a field. Max’s field.
_Maxwell._ _Max_, Max; _wæl_, a well. Max’s well.
_Meadowcroft._ _Mǽdewe_, a meadow; _croft_, a small enclosed field. A
meadow-field.
_Mearns._ _Mearn_, mourned; _s_ for _sun_, son. A mourned son.
_Mear._ _Mere_, lake, pool, sea.
_Mears._ _Mear_, Mear; _s_ for _sun_, son. Son of Mear.
_Medlar._ _Méd_, meed, merit, reward, recompense; _lǽr_, doctrine.
Reward of doctrine.
_Medway._ _Mǽd_, meed, meadow, trunk of a tree; _wǽg_, a wave.
Meadow-wave; a river.
_Meredith._ _Mere_, lake, sea; _diht_, ordering, direction, predicting,
foretelling. Sea-predicting.
_Merscher._ _Mersc-ware_, from _mersc_, marsh, fen, and _ware_, used only
as a termination, denoting inhabitants, dwellers. Marshmen; fenmen.
_Merton._ _Meretún_, from _mere_, lake, sea; _tún_, town. Sea-port;
lake-port.
_Metsinger._ _Metssunge_, from _mettsung_, messing, food, meat; _ere_,
indicating a person. A victualler; a provider. Messinger, another form of
the name.
_Michener._ Perhaps _Micg-ærn_, from _micg-an_, to water; _ærn_, a place,
a secret place, a closet, a habitation, a house. An urinary; a drain.
_Midding._ _Midding_, a dunghill.
_Middlesex._ _Middel_, middle; _Sexe_, Saxons. The Middle Saxons.
_Middleton._ _Middel_, middle; _tún_, town. The middle town.
_Mitchell._ _Mycg_, a midge, a gnat; _el_, a termination denoting a
person. A dwarf; a pigmy.
_Monteith._ _Mon_, man; _téth_, teeth. Human teeth.
_Montgomery._ _Munt-guman-ríc_, from _munt_, mountain; _guman_, of man,
genitive of _guma_; _ríc_, pronounced _ree_, a postfix denoting dominion,
power. Mountain of man’s power; acme of human greatness.
_Muckle._ _Mucxle_, a muscle, a shell-fish.
_Mumford._ _Mund-ford_, from _mund_, a contraction of _munden_,
remembered, and _ford_, ford. A remembered ford.
_Munce._ _Munc_, a monk. Munch, Munk, of similar derivation.
_Murberry._ _Murberie_, possibly from _múr_, a wall, from the resemblance
of the fruit in roughness to a wall, and _berie_, a berry. _Mur_ itself
signifies a mulberry.
_Murdock._ _Mere_, a sea; _docce_, a dock. A naval dock.