Maire

Anglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).

Maire

1. A female given name from Irish.

Borrowed from French Maire.

Maire (plural Maires)

1. A surname from French.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Maire is the 35812^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Maire is most common among White (90.91%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 494.

• Marie, Miera, aimer, armie, ramie, reaim, rimae

Named after the former village of Maire, which was lost to flooding in 1530.

• Hyphenation: Mai‧re

Maire n

1. a former municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands

Maire

1. a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire

Short form of mairea in its archaic meaning "lovely, sweet".

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑi̯re/, [ˈmɑ̝i̯re̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑire
• Syllabification^(key): Mai‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): Mai‧re

Maire

1. a female given name

• Maire is the 130^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,464 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,050 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• Reima, reima

From Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρίᾱ (Maríā), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם (maryām) or Hebrew מִרְיָם (miryām).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmarʲe]

Maire f

1. (biblical) Mary (mother of Jesus)

• Irish: Muire
• Manx: Moirrey
• Scottish Gaelic: Moire

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 Muire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language