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The people below were born aboard — and named after! — ships with M-names…

• Macduff:
  • Edward Macduff Thompson, born in 1878

• Magellan:
  • Magellan Carrahlew, born in 1870

• Malabar:
  • Emma Malabar Young, born in 1865

• Malta:
  • Thomas Malta McCafferty, born in 1876

• Manora:
  • Manora Ida Power, born in 1882

• Maraval:
  • Maraval White, born in 1878
  • Maraval Hay, born in 1878
  • Robert Maraval Schroder, born in 1879
  • Sarah Maraval McKenzie, born in 1879

• Marcotis:
  • Marcotis Gallia, born in 1882

• Margaret Galbraith:
  • Annie Galbraith Dawson, born in 1879

• Marion:
  • Marion Margaret Ramsay, born in 1854

• Marlborough:
  • Marlborough Stevens, born in 1883

• Martello:
  • Martello Grant, born in 1853

• Mary Pleasants:
  • Mary Pleasants Robinson, born in 1857
  • Mary Pleasants Poole, born in 1857

• Mary Shepherd:
  • Margaret Mary Shepherd Crozier, born in 1865
  • Charley Shepherd Piercy, born in 1866
  • Alice Mary Shepherd Dix, born in 1866
  • Mary Shepherd Miner, born in 1873

• Mataura:
  • Mataura Welsh, born in 1877

• Matoaka:
  • Matoaka Atlantic Costa, born in 1864

• May Queen:
  • May Colville Walker, born in 1881

• Maxima:
  • Albert Maxima Shaddiek, born in 1873

• Medford:
  • Medford Colling, born in the mid-19th century.
    • He in turn gave his name to Medford, Minnesota, in the 1850s. His father, Englishman William K. Colling, was an early Minnesota settler who “said that he had a son who was born on board the ship Medford, and was named Medford, in honor of the ship, and proposed that the town should be named Medford in honor of the boy.”

• Medway:
  • Atalanta Medway Hancock, born in 1871

• Melpomene:
  • Elizabeth Melpomene Hindley, born in 1882

• Mennock:
  • Louise Mennock Looney, born in 1885

• Merkara:
  • Alexander Merkara McLeod, born in 1882
  • Alice Mabel Merkara Atkin, born in 1884
  • Mary Ellen Merkara Mathews, born in 1885
  • Merkara Beier, born in 1887
  • Merkara Smith, born in 1887
  • Merkara Cave Bratz, born in 1890

• Merope:
  • Merope Pentebow, born in 1879

• Middlesex:
  • Carter Middlesex Mellows, born in 1866

• Miltiades:
  • Edward Miltiades Taylor, born in 1874
  • Jessie Miltiades Mary Jennings, born in 1874

• Mirage:
  • Alice Mirage Osgood, born in 1864

• Missouri:
  • Atlantic Missouri Linne, born in 1889

• Mississippi:
  • Mississippi Petrovitch, born in 1885

• Mizpah:
  • Joseph Mizpah Bagley, born in 1880

• Montana:
  • Jane Montana McGuiness, born in 1878
  • Henry Montana Rowson, born in 1879

• Moravian:
  • Thomas Moravian Carter, born in 1868
  • Ellen K. Moravian Warford, born in 1872
  • Thomas Moravian McElraith, born in 1881

• Morna:
  • Morna Francis, born in 1887

• Myrtle:
  • James Myrtle Holme Robertson, born in 1877

Do you think any of the ship names above work particularly well as human names?

Sources:

• FamilySearch.org
• Upham, Warren. Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1920.