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Muireann Muireann — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Sea-fair (Irish + Muireann Bradley young blues musician)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Irish)

A name that means "sea-fair (irish + muireann bradley young blues musician)".

Muireann is from the Irish Muireann — muir sea + fionn fair/white — sea-fair, sea-white. Muireann is one of the Irish feminine names — central to traditional Irish Gaelic Indigenous Goidelic Celtic heritage. The Irish muir- (sea) compound family is one of the pan-Goidelic Celtic maritime naming heritages spanning Irish + Scottish Gaelic + Manx Atlantic Celtic Indigenous identity.

Sea-fair (Irish-Goidelic Celtic).

The name in its native script.

Muireann
Transliteration
Muireann
Pronunciation
/ ˈmwɪər.ɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Muireann stands.

Muireann 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.

Muireanns before her.

Real people
Muireann Bradley
Irish blues guitarist + I Kept These Old Blues 2023 + Donegal folk-blues revival.
born 2007
In fiction
Muireann
Irish sea-fair.

Names connected to Muireann.

The number behind Muireann.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Muireann reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.