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.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe; pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form. Know this name better — a dialect pronunciation, a family tradition? Tell us. · All Irish names A–Z