Entry № 7025 · Celtic origin

Muirenn Muirenn — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"Sea-fair"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Old Irish)

A name that means "sea-fair".

Muirenn is from the Old Irish Muirenn — muir (sea) + fionn (fair, white). Muirenn is one of the Old Irish feminine names — central to the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

Sea-fair (Old Irish).

The name in its native script.

Muirenn
Transliteration
Muirenn
Pronunciation
/ ˈmwɪːr.ɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Muirenn stands.

Muirenn 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.

Muirenns before her.

Real people

In fiction
Muirenn / Muirne
Mother of Fionn mac Cumhaill.

Names connected to Muirenn.

The number behind Muirenn.

4

The Builder

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