The name MAMP is an acronym that stems from the names of the components of the system: macOS (the operating system); Apache (the web server); MySQL or MariaDB (the database management system); and PHP, Perl, or Python (programming languages used for web development).
The MAMP system is named after the initial letters of its key components: the operating system (macOS), web server (Apache), database management system (MySQL or MariaDB), and programming languages used for web development (PHP, Perl, or Python).