Entry № 6622 · Irish origin

Maureen Maureen — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOR-een /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Beloved (Maureen O'Hara; Maureen Dowd)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "beloved (maureen o'hara; maureen dowd)".

Maureen is the anglicized Irish Máirín — the diminutive of Máire, the Irish form of Mary. Honorary Academy Award (2014).

Subject of O'Hara's memoir 'Tis Herself (2004).

Beloved (Maureen O'Hara; Maureen Dowd) — a Irish name.

The name in its native script.

Máirín
Transliteration
Máirín
Pronunciation
/ mɔːˈriːn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maureen stands.

Maureen 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.

Maureens before her.

Real people
Maureen O'Hara
Irish-American actress.
1920 – 2015
Maureen Dowd
American Pulitzer journalist.
born 1952
Maureen Connolly
First woman tennis Grand Slam.
1934 – 1969
In fiction
Maureen
The Quiet Man.
1952

Names connected to Maureen.

The number behind Maureen.

5

The Seeker

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