Maire
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Means a municipal official/mayor; surname with variants Maireau, Mairel, Mairesse, Mairot, Meyre
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
- BOBolivia≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Means a municipal official/mayor; surname with variants Maireau, Mairel, Mairesse, Mairot, Meyre.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 32 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maire counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 790 | 1 in 11K | 790 | Maire | 6 |
| US United States | 627 | 1 in 531K | 1.1K | Maire | 57 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Maire | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 179 | 1 in 254K | 179 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 97 | 1 in 121K | 97 | Maire | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 2K | Maire | 28 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maire is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Irish Gaelic form of Mary. Mairéad 92 Irish Gaelic form of }Margaret, pronounced ‘my-raid’ (in Munster) or ‘maraid’ (in Connacht). The name is also used in Scotland, where it is spelled Mairead or Maighread. Mairenn ° Irish: traditional Gaelic name, said to be derived from muir ‘sea’ + fhionn ‘fair’. Variant: Muireann.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, status name or occupational name for a maire, a title denoting a municipal magistrate or other local official (the role of the maire differed at different times at different places). It may also be a nickname for an officious or pompous person.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, Maire är ett finskt namn, bildat till maire ’härlig, ljuvlig’. Namnet tillhör den national romantiska eran och är hämtat från Kalevala. Det bärs i Finland främst av kvinnor födda under 1900-talets första hälft. Det spreds också till Estland, där det under senare delen av 1950-talet var ett modenamn.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, habitational name from Maire in Vienne or from MaireI’Evescault in Deux-Sevres.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Estonian, a female given name borrowed from Finnish Maire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maximiliaan le Maireb. 1606NLDutch colonial governor
- René Maireb. 1878FRFrench botanist and mycologist (1878–1949)
- Fred Maireb. 1932DEGerman actor and voice actor (1932-2020)
- Christian Maireb. 1946FRcomposer
- Dominique Prieurb. 1949FRnot in their usual nameFrench spy
- Jacques-André Maireb. 1957CHSwiss politician
- Jean-Michel Maireb. 1961FRFrench journalist
- Jacques Maireb. 1962FRFrench politician
- Laura Maireb. 1979DEGerman actress and voice actress
- Arnaud Maireb. 1979FRFrench footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 62 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.1K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 790 | #1,548 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 656 | #36,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 627 | #35,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 586 | #36,129 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 179 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 97 | #15,897 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maire mean, and where does it come from?
- Means a municipal official/mayor; surname with variants Maireau, Mairel, Mairesse, Mairot, Meyre. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- How do you pronounce Maire?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Maire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Maire in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Maire?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 790 people named Maire in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.