Máire (first name)
Máire is a female given name .
Origin and variants
The name is the Irish form of Mary .
Other variants are Maura , Moyra and Moira.
Reduced forms are Mairenn, Máirín, Maureen and Maurine.
Well-known namesake
- Máire , pseudonym of Séamus Ó Grianna (1891–1969), Irish writer
- Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (born 1950), Irish politician
- Máire Hickey (* 1938), Irish classical philologist and Benedictine
- Máire O'Neill (1885–1952), Irish actress
Individual evidence
- ^ Mike Campbell: Meaning, origin and history of the name Máire. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .