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What is the meaning of this name? It looks German to me but I've also seen sources that say that it is of Irish origin.
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Where did you find this name in this spelling? What is the gender of the person who bore it?
As this site says, Eimear is a modern Irish, and Eimhir a modern Scottish, form of an ancient Irish female name, Emer, which is possibly from a word that meant "swift". Eimear is pronounced as "EE- mur".
German Names by Hans Bahlow lists Eimer as a modern German surname derived from the ancient Germanic male given name "Aginmar", which combined words that meant "sword point" and "famous". Eimer would be pronounced something like "EYE-mer".
So if Eimar is a female name, it might be a spelling variation of Emer or Eimear and so is Irish. If it's a male name, it might be a spelling variation of Eimer and so is German. But in either case, we'd have to have more information about just where you found the name to be sure.
As this site says, Eimear is a modern Irish, and Eimhir a modern Scottish, form of an ancient Irish female name, Emer, which is possibly from a word that meant "swift". Eimear is pronounced as "EE- mur".
German Names by Hans Bahlow lists Eimer as a modern German surname derived from the ancient Germanic male given name "Aginmar", which combined words that meant "sword point" and "famous". Eimer would be pronounced something like "EYE-mer".
So if Eimar is a female name, it might be a spelling variation of Emer or Eimear and so is Irish. If it's a male name, it might be a spelling variation of Eimer and so is German. But in either case, we'd have to have more information about just where you found the name to be sure.
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It seems the Germanic name Aimar, variant of Aimard/Haimard, that has been also documented as Heimard (in Förstemann's book, for example), coming from the Germanic elements haim/heim, "house", and hard, "hard, strong".
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