Mab

MAB
Irish, English
"intoxicating"

Mab Origin and Meaning

The name Mab is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "intoxicating".

An Anglicized form of Medb borrowed by both Shakespeare and Percy Bysshe Shelley for the of queen of the fairies. Perfect if you want something both adventurous and simple - though you could use it as a nickname for Mabel, Mirabel, Mabli, or Amabel too.

Famous People Named Mab

  • Mabelle Massey "Mab" Segrest
    American feminist author
  • Mab Graves
    American pop,surrealist artist
  • Gertrude "Mab" Higger
    lover of playwright Maxwell Anderson

Mab in Pop Culture

  • Mab
    main character in Elizabeth Enright's The Sea is All Around
  • Queen Mab
    character on TV's "Merlin"
  • Mab
    a fairy queen of dreams and nightmares in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
  • Queen Mab (1813)
    poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Mabbe was a medieval girls' name
    a shortened form of Amabel
  • Mab
    character in the "Throne of Glass" series by Sarah J. Maas