Given name & surname
Muir
“from the moor”
Muir is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “from the moor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “from the moor.”
Where it comes from
Muir comes from Scots, and ultimately from Scottish Gaelic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
It entered given-name use through an existing surname.
The story
Its naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Muir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 7 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,239 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Muir
- Muir MathiesonBritish composer and conductor (1911–1975)
- Muir S. FairchildUnited States general (1894–1950)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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