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).
MAMP's name originates from an acronym that encompasses the names of its core components: macOS, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python.