Maire
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Anglicisation of Irish Máire (“Mary”).
Proper noun[edit]
Maire
- A female given name from Irish.
Etymology 2[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Maire (plural Maires)
- A surname from French.
Statistics[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Maire”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 494.
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after the former village of Maire, which was lost to flooding in 1530.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: Mai‧re
Proper noun[edit]
Maire n
- A former municipality of Zeeland, Netherlands.
Estonian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Maire
- a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Short form of mairea in its archaic meaning "lovely, sweet".
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Maire
- a female given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Maire (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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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 Maireinrare | ||
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[edit]
- 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.
Anagrams[edit]
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- English terms derived from Irish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English given names
- English female given names
- English female given names from Irish
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English surnames
- English surnames from French
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Historical political subdivisions
- nl:Places in Zeeland, Netherlands
- nl:Places in the Netherlands
- Estonian lemmas
- Estonian proper nouns
- Estonian given names
- Estonian female given names
- Estonian terms derived from Finnish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑire
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑire/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
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