As proper nouns the difference between craig and maura
is that craig is {{surname|Scottish|from=Scottish Gaelic}}, originally meaning someone who lived near a crag while Maura is an English, Scottish and Irish female given name, commonly regarded as a form of Mary ( anglicised from Irish {{term|Máire|lang=ga}} and Gaelic {{term|Màiri|lang=gd}} ).
craig
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
, originally meaning someone who lived near a crag.
transferred from the surname.
A river in Alaska and British Columbia.
Quotations
* 1979 Bruce Jackson: The Programmer: A Novel . Doubleday 1979. page 168:
*: He told her the name he had used to rent the cabin. " I'm Craig Hemsworth."
*: She burst out laughing. "That's a funnier name than mine. It sounds like the kind of name they give a movie actor when they decide his own name won't do.
maura
English
Proper noun
(
en proper noun)
An English, Scottish and Irish female given name, commonly regarded as a form of Mary ( anglicised from (etyl) ).
of (etyl) derivation, the feminine of Mauro.
