# Maire (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maire/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | “mary” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 914 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 914 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 17, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Anglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 10 | 11,293 |
| 2009 | 12 | 9,768 |
| 2010 | 10 | 10,936 |
| 2011 | 8 | 12,924 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,491 |
| 2013 | 13 | 8,876 |
| 2014 | 9 | 11,573 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,595 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,452 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,440 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10,286 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,800 |
| 2022 | 7 | 13,073 |
| 2023 | 9 | 10,842 |
| 2024 | 5 | 16,779 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,738 |
| 2000 | 4 | 3,247 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |

## People named Maire

- Maire Österdahl, Finnish long jumper and sprinter (1927-2013)
- Ilon Wikland, Estonian-Swedish artist (born 1930)
- Elena Leeve, Finnish actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.