First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Scottish: from the medieval personal name Maban, Mabon, which is from an ancient British personal name (Old Welsh Maponos ‘great son’). This is found as an element in Scottish place names of Brythonic origin.