Mayre as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Mayre

What is the meaning of the name Mayre ?

The baby name Mayre is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Common pronunciations: 'MAYR' (/meɪr/) or 'MAY-ruh' (/ˈmeɪrə/). Irish equivalent Máire: /ˈmˠaːɾʲə/..

Mayre is English, Irish, Latin in Origin.

Mayre is a rare feminine given name most plausibly arising in English as a phonetic or ornamental variant blending May with Mary/Marie, and sometimes conflated with Irish Máire (the Gaelic form of Mary). Its ultimate root is the Hebrew Miryam, via Greek Maria and Latin Maria, with debated meanings that include “beloved,” “wished-for child,” and “sea of bitterness,” while the May element also suggests the spring month and the Roman theonym Maia, “good mother.”

Documented sporadically in 19th–early 20th‑century parish registers, U.S. census returns, and newspapers, Mayre never achieved wide currency and today reads vintage and distinctive. Variant and cognate forms include Mary, Marie, Maria, Máire/Maire, Moira, Maura, Mairi, Marye, May, Mae, and Mayra; diminutives such as Molly, Polly, and Mimi are workable. As a surname-derived given name, Mayre also overlaps with French Maire (“mayor”), though this etymology is secondary.