Entry № 6820 · Scottish Gaelic origin

Mhairi Mhairi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish Gaelic
Meaning
"Mary, beloved"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish Gaelic)

A name that means "mary, beloved".

Mhairi is the Scottish Gaelic form of Mary — from the Hebrew Miriam. The Mh- digraph is pronounced "V" in Scottish Gaelic, giving "VAH-ree."

Mhairi is widely used in modern Scotland.

Mary. The Scottish Gaelic spelling.

The name in its native script.

Mhairi
Transliteration
Mhairi
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɑːr.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mhairi stands.

Mhairi 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.

Mhairis before her.

Real people
Mhairi Black
Scottish politician, youngest UK MP in 2015.
born 1994
In fiction
Mhairi
Common in Scottish fiction.

Names connected to Mhairi.

The number behind Mhairi.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mhairi reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.