Maire
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Anglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).
Proper noun edit
Maire
- A female given name from Irish.
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Maire (plural Maires)
- A surname from French.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Maire is the 35812th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Maire is most common among White (90.91%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 494.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Named after the former village of Maire, which was lost to flooding in 1530.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: Mai‧re
Proper noun edit
Maire n
- A former municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
Estonian edit
Proper noun edit
Maire
- a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Short form of mairea in its archaic meaning "lovely, sweet".
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Maire
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Maire (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Maire | Mairet | ||
genitive | Mairen | Mairejen | ||
partitive | Mairea | Maireja | ||
illative | Maireen | Maireihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Maire | Mairet | ||
accusative | nom. | Maire | Mairet | |
gen. | Mairen | |||
genitive | Mairen | Mairejen Maireinrare | ||
partitive | Mairea | Maireja | ||
inessive | Mairessa | Maireissa | ||
elative | Mairesta | Maireista | ||
illative | Maireen | Maireihin | ||
adessive | Mairella | Maireilla | ||
ablative | Mairelta | Maireilta | ||
allative | Mairelle | Maireille | ||
essive | Mairena | Maireina | ||
translative | Maireksi | Maireiksi | ||
abessive | Mairetta | Maireitta | ||
instructive | — | Mairein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Maire is the 130th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,464 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,050 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.