Variants and usage Maria (given name)



the annunciation dante gabriel rossetti, 1850.


maria given name in southern europe in medieval period. in addition simple name, there arose tradition of naming girls after specific titles of mary, feast days associated mary , specific marian apparitions (such maria de los dolores, maria del pilar, maria del carmen etc., whence derived given names of dolores, pilar, carmen etc.). contrast, in northern europe name rose popularity after reformation.


because name frequent in christian tradition, tradition of giving compound names has developed, number of such compounds becoming popular. examples include anna+maria (anne-marie, marianne, etc.) maria+luisa (french marie-louise,) margarita+maria (english margaret mary, french marguerite marie etc.), maria+antonia (italian maria antonia, french marie-antoinette etc.) maria+helena (italian maria elena, spanish maría elena), maria+teresa, among numerous others.


as feminine given name, maria ranked 109th in united states of 2015, down rank 31 held during 1973–1975.


spelling variants of maria include: mária (hungarian, slovakian), maría (galician, spanish), marya, marija (transliterated cyrillic). english form mary derived via french marie. great number of hypocoristic forms in use in numerous languages.


maryam , miriam have numerous variants, such georgian mariami (georgian) mariamma, biblical mariamme, mariamne məryəm (azerbaijani) meryem (kurdish, turkish) myriam (french)


the spelling in semitic abjads mrym: aramaic ܡܪܝܡ, hebrew מרים, arabic مريم. cyrillic has Марыя (marýja) (belarusian), Мария (maríja) (russian, bulgarian). georgian uses მარიამ (mariam), მარია (maria); armenian: Մարիամ. chinese has adopted spelling 瑪麗 (simplified 玛丽, pinyin mǎlì).


masculine name

maria used part of masculine given names in roman catholic tradition. examples include dukes of milan gian maria visconti (1388–1412) , filippo maria visconti (1392–1447), italian composers giovanni maria nanino (1543/4–1607) , giovanni maria trabaci (c. 1575–1647), english colonist edward maria wingfield (1550– 1631), italian painter antonio maria vassallo (c. 1620-1664/1673), german composer carl maria von weber (1786–1826), french physicist andré-marie ampère (1775–1836), german-language poet rainer maria rilke (1875–1926),


french politician jean-marie le pen (b. 1928), etc.








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