Maguire
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- ma-GWIRE
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Maguire is a name of Irish origin, meaning “son of the dun-coloured one”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Maguire mean?
Irish: from the surname Mag Uidhir
“son of the dun-coloured one”
From the Irish surname Mag Uidhir; the Maguires were lords of Fermanagh in medieval Ireland.
Is Maguire a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Maguire has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US.
How popular is Maguire in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Maguire, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most girls named Maguire of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Maguire in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2007, 16% of the babies named Maguire in the US were girls.
Maguire in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Maguire
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve, Teagan, Esme, Brynlee, Saoirse, Mckenna, Murphy, Rowan, Sloane, Aoife, Brielle, Meadow
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Kennedy, Callan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maguire: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maguire, updated 20 October 2026.