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Mair Mair — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIRE /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Welsh form of Mary (Welsh + Virgin Mary heritage)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh form of mary (welsh + virgin mary heritage)".

Mair is from the Welsh Mair — Welsh form of Mary / Maria from Hebrew Miryam (bitter/beloved/rebellious). Mair is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh Christian heritage. Welsh feminine name reflecting Celtic Christian heritage.

Welsh form of Mary (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Mair
Transliteration
Mair
Pronunciation
/ maɪər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mair stands.

Mair 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.

Mairs before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mair / Mary
Mother of Jesus Christ + Theotokos + Welsh Christian heritage + Eglwys Fair Welsh churches.
Christian tradition

Names connected to Mair.

The number behind Mair.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mair reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.