Marius is a male name, a Roman family name , and a modern surname .
3-519: Mario is the Italian, French, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovene, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, German, Dutch, and Nigerian English form of the Latin Roman name Marius . In Croatia , the name Mario was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1970 and 1999, and was the most common name in the 1970s. The Portuguese version of
6-555: The name is spelled Mário (to indicate that the "a" is stressed). Notable people and characters named Mario include: Marius (name) The name Marius was used by members of the Roman gens Maria . It is thought to be derived from either the Roman war god Mars or from the Latin root mas or maris meaning "male". It may also derive from the Latin word mare meaning "sea",
9-680: The plural of which is maria . In Christian times, it was syncretized as a masculine form of the unrelated feminine given name Maria , from the Hebrew Miriam , Aramaic variant Mariam , and used alongside it. Today, the name Marius is a common given name in Romania, Norway, and Lithuania. The name is also used in the Philippines, France, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and South Africa. The Greek name Marios (Μάριος),
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