Girl's name
Máirín
“maw-REEN”
'little Máire' — a diminutive of Máire, the Irish Mary
The story behind the name
Anglicised as Maureen and carried out of Ireland by the million — one of the very few Irish names that the wider English-speaking world took up whole and kept.
Famous people with this name
- Máirín Uí Dhálaigh (1908–1994) — Wife of the President of Ireland
- Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha (born 1957) — Irish linguist
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Máirín on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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