Irish names

Máirín: how to pronounce it and what it means

Girls' names

Name and meaning

Little Mary

Origin

From Máire, ‘Mary’, with the diminutive suffix -ín. Molly is an English naming equivalent.

How to pronounce it

MáirínIPA: /mˠɑːˈɾʲiːnʲ/

Used as the equivalent of: Molly

Naming equivalents do not always have the same origin.

Sources

Name definitions adapted from Wiktionary via Kaikki.org (CC BY-SA 4.0). CC BY-SA 4.0

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