Entry № 6184 · Greek origin

Maera Maera — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender

Girl

Origin

Greek

Meaning

"The sparkling one"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "the sparkling one".

Maera was a Nereid whose name means the glistening or sparkling one, like sunlight on water.

Bright and gentle, it shimmers with a soft, watery light.

The sparkling one — a Greek name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Maera

Transliteration: Maera
Pronunciation: / ˈmaɪ.ɾa /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Maera stands.

Maera does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Maeras before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Maera.

Numerology

The number behind Maera.

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maera reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.