Maire
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English
Etymology 1
Anglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).
Proper noun
Maire
- A female given name from Irish.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Maire (plural Maires)
- A surname from French.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Maire is the 35812th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 627 individuals. Maire is most common among White (90.91%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 494.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Named after the former village of Maire, which was lost to flooding in 1530.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Mai‧re
Proper noun
Maire n
- A former municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands
Estonian
Proper noun
Maire
- a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire
Finnish
Etymology
Short form of mairea in its archaic meaning "lovely, sweet".
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Maire
- a female given name
Declension
| Inflection of Maire (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Maire | Mairet | |
| genitive | Mairen | Mairejen | |
| partitive | Mairea | Maireja | |
| illative | Maireen | Maireihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Maire | Mairet | |
| accusative | nom. | Maire | Mairet |
| gen. | Mairen | ||
| genitive | Mairen | Mairejen Mairein rare | |
| partitive | Mairea | Maireja | |
| inessive | Mairessa | Maireissa | |
| elative | Mairesta | Maireista | |
| illative | Maireen | Maireihin | |
| adessive | Mairella | Maireilla | |
| ablative | Mairelta | Maireilta | |
| allative | Mairelle | Maireille | |
| essive | Mairena | Maireina | |
| translative | Maireksi | Maireiksi | |
| abessive | Mairetta | Maireitta | |
| instructive | — | Mairein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Statistics
- Maire is the 130th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 5,464 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,050 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.