Boy's name
Muiris
“MWIR-ish”
the Irish form of Maurice; also from muir, 'sea'
The story behind the name
Muiris Ó Súilleabháin of the Great Blasket wrote 'Fiche Bliain ag Fás' (Twenty Years A-Growing) in his late twenties — the sunniest of the three great Blasket books.
Its age
Associated with 1933 — Partition — Free State & Northern Ireland.
See Ireland in that year on the atlas ↗
Where the name belongs
Famous people with this name
- Muiris Mac Conghail (1941–2019) — Irish journalist
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Muiris on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
Surnames built on this name
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