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Meinir Meinir — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Tall slim maiden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "tall slim maiden".

Meinir is from the Welsh Meinir — tall slim maiden, graceful young woman from Welsh main (slim/slender). Meinir is one of the Welsh feminine names — central to traditional Welsh cultural heritage. Welsh feminine name reflecting Celtic Indigenous heritage.

Tall slim maiden (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Meinir
Transliteration
Meinir
Pronunciation
/ ˈmeɪ.nɪər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meinir stands.

Meinir 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.

Meinirs before her.

Real people
Meinir Gwilym
Welsh singer-songwriter + pioneering Welsh-language pop music + Sgwarnogod Bach Bobi.
born 1983
In fiction
Meinir
Welsh folk tale of bride who hid from bridegroom + tree-trunk skeleton legend.
Welsh folklore

Names connected to Meinir.

The number behind Meinir.

5

The Seeker

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