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Mairead

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Mairead: Irish, shortened fom of Mairghread, variation of Margaret Meaning of Mairead: "pearl"

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Pronounced MAW-rayt or ma-REYD, Mairead is close enough to Maureen to be accepted here. The name became popular in Ireland due to admiration for the saint of that name. Peig and Peigi are its Irish-language nicknames.

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Mairead McKinley - award-winning Irish actress.

Mairead Nesbitt - a fiddler with the group Celtic Woman.

Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - the fiddler and lead vocalist for the group Altan.

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Mairead Nesbitt - violinist for Celtic Woman. Fabulous musician and beautiful.

Mairead is the protagonist in the Books of Pellinor by Alison Croggon

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