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Maolra (male)

Variants:Maoil-Mhuire (M) Myles (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Irish Gaelic, recent re-spelling of an early Gaelic name Maoil-Mhuire, "devotee of Mary".

Maolra/Maoil-Mhuire is Anglicised as Myles, as is Maoilíosa, Gaelic "devotee of Jesus".
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