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*[[Maria Renard]], a character in the ''Castlevania'' video game series |
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*[[Bloodborne|Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower]], a boss character from ''The Old Hunters'' [[DLC]] for the video game ''Bloodborne'' |
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=== Male (Middle name) === |
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Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Language(s) | Latin |
Other names | |
Related names | Mary, Marie, Maryam, Miriam, Mariana, Mariah |
Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Latin Christianity. It has its origin as the feminine form of the Roman name Marius (see Maria gens),[1] and, after Christianity has spread across the Roman empire, it became the Latinised form of the name of Miriam: Mary, mother of Jesus.
Maria (Μαρία) is a form of the name used in the New Testament, standing alongside Mariam Μαριάμ. It reflects the Syro-Aramaic name Maryam, which is in turn derived from the Biblical Hebrew name Miriam. As a result of their similarity and syncretism, the Latin original name Maria and the Hebrew-derived Maria combined to form a single name.
The name is also sometimes used as a male (middle) name. This was historically the case in many Central European countries and still is the case in countries with strong Catholic traditions, where it signified patronage of the Virgin Mary (French-speakers often did the same with Marie).
Besides Maria, Mother of Jesus there are three other women named Maria in the New Testament: Maria Magdalena and Maria Salomé, disciples of Jesus, and Maria Betânia, sister of Lazarus. In Quranic tradition, the name is rendered Maryam, but Arabic reflects the Christian given name as Mārya مارية or Māryā ماريا; for example, Mārya al-Qibiṭiyya, a Coptic Egyptian woman who was a bondmaid to prophet Muhammad.
Variants and usage
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Maria was a frequently given name in southern Europe even in the medieval period. In addition to the simple name, there arose a tradition of naming girls after specific titles of Mary, feast days associated with Mary and specific Marian apparitions (such as Maria de los Dolores, Maria del Pilar, Maria del Carmen etc., whence the derived given names of Dolores, Pilar, Carmen etc.). By contrast, in northern Europe the name only rose to popularity after the Reformation.[2]
Because the name is so frequent in Christian tradition, a tradition of giving compound names has developed, with a number of such compounds themselves becoming very 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.[clarification needed]
As a feminine given name, Maria ranked 109th in the United States as of 2015, down from rank 31 held during 1973–1975.[3]
Spelling variants of Maria include: Mária (Hungarian, Slovakian), María (Greek, Icelandic, Spanish), Máire and Muire (Irish), Marya, Marija (transliterated from Cyrillic), Maria (Polish). Due to a very strong devotion of Irish and Polish Catholics to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a special exception is made for two other forms of her name—Muire and Maryja—no one else may take that name similar to the way the name Jesus is not used in most languages. The English form Mary is derived via French Marie. A great number of hypocoristic forms are in use in numerous languages.
Maryam and Miriam have numerous variants, such as Georgian Mariami (Georgian) Mariamma, biblical Mariamme, Mariamne Məryəm (Azerbaijani) Meryem (Kurdish, Turkish) Myriam (French)
The spelling in Semitic abjads is 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 the spelling 瑪麗 (simplified 玛丽, pinyin Mǎlì).
The variant Mariah (usually pronounced /məˈraɪə/) was rarely given in the United States prior to the 1990s, when it bounced in popularity, from rank 562 in 1989 to rank 62 in 1998, in imitation of the name of singer Mariah Carey (whose Vision of Love topped the charts in 1990).
Masculine name
Maria is used as a part of masculine given names in Hispanic and Roman Catholic tradition.
People named Maria
Female
- Maria of Russia (several people)
- Maria al-Qibtiyya
- María Conchita Alonso (born 1957), American singer/songwriter and actress
- Maria Ahtisa Manalo, Miss International Philippines 2018
- Maria Ângela Carrascalão, East Timorese politician
- María Azambuya (1944–2011), Uruguayan actress and theatre director
- Maria Bamford (born 1970), American stand-up comedian, actress, and voice actress
- María Bazo (born 1998), Peruvian windsurfer
- Maria Beasley, American inventor
- Maria Beig (1920–2018), German author
- Maria Bello (born 1967), American actress and writer
- María Belón (born 1966), Spanish physician and motivational speaker
- Maria Brink (born 1977), American singer and songwriter
- María Bolívar (born 1975), Venezuelan politician
- Maria Callas (1923–1977), Greek-American soprano
- Maria Callani (1778–1803), Italian 18th century portrait painter active in Parma[4]
- Maria Cole (1922–2012), American jazz singer
- Maria Christina (several people)
- Maria Dallas, New Zealand singer
- Maria Darling, UK voice actress
- Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz, East Timorese religious sister
- Maria do Céu Sarmento, East Timorese politician
- Maria Domingas Alves, East Timorese politician
- Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature
- María Escudero-Escribano (born 1983), Spanish chemist
- María-Esther Vidal, Venezuelan scientist
- Maria Louise Eve (1842–1900), American poet
- Maria Fyfe (1938–2020), Scottish politician
- Maria Harfanti (born 1992), Miss World Indonesia 2015
- Maria Höfl-Riesch (born 1984), German alpine skier
- María Holly (born 1932), widow of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly
- Maria James (1793–1868), Welsh-born American poet
- Maria Jane Jewsbury (1800–1833), English writer, poet, literary reviewer
- María José (several people)
- Maria Kanellis (born 1982), American professional wrestler
- Maria Kekkonen, Finnish erotic actress
- Maria Brace Kimball (1852–1933), American educator, elocutionist, writer
- Maria Kochetkova (born 1984), Russian ballet dancer
- Maria Kowroski (born 1976), American ballet dancer
- Maria Elise Turner Lauder (1833–1922), Canadian writer
- Maria Lauterbach (1987–2007), American murder victim
- Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet, abolitionist
- Maria Lugones (1944–2020), American philosopher
- Maria Lynn Ehren (born 1992), Thai singer and model
- Maria Laura Mainetti (1939–2000), Italian Catholic sister and murder victim
- Maria Mandl (1912–1948), Austrian Nazi SS commandant of the female camp at Auschwitz concentration camp executed for war crimes
- Maria Rika Maniates (1937–2011), Canadian musicologist
- Maria Mazina (born 1964), Russian Olympic champion épée fencer
- Maria Montessori, Italian educator
- Maria Ozawa (小澤 マリア, born 1986), Japanese actress
- Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma (born 1934)
- Maria Palmer (1917–1981), Austrian-born American actress
- Maria Rahajeng (born 1991), Miss World Indonesia 2014
- Maria Rasputin (1898–1977), memoirist
- Maria Ressa (born 1963), Filipina-American author and journalist
- Maria Reynolds (1768–1828), wife of James Reynolds
- María Elena Salinas, American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author
- Maria Selena (born 1990), Indonesian beauty pageant titleholder who won Puteri Indonesia 2011
- Maria Sharapova (born 1987), Russian professional tennis player
- Maria Shriver (born 1955), American journalist and activist
- Maria Theresa (several people)
- Maria von Trapp (1905–1987), Austrian-born American singer
- María Valverde (born 1987), Spanish actress
- Maria Eulália Vares, Brazilian mathematical statistician and probability theorist
- Maria Walliser (born 1963), Swiss alpine skier
- Maria Zandbang (1886–1972), Polish equestrian
Fictional characters
- Maria, a fictional character played by Laura Nicole in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Maria (West Side Story), the main female protagonist from the musical West Side Story
- Maria Jackson, a character from The Sarah Jane Adventures
- Maria Robotnik, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
- Maria Renard, a character in the Castlevania video game series
- Maria von Trapp (The Sound of Music), the main female protagonist from the musical The Sound of Music
- Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower, a boss character from The Old Hunters DLC for the video game Bloodborne
Male (Middle name)
- Carlo Maria Abate, Italian racecar driver
- Alberto María de Agostini, Italian explorer
- Carlos María de Alvear, Argentine general
- José María Aznar, Spanish politician, former Spanish prime minister
- Angelo Maria Bandini, Italian author and librarian
- Antonio María Barbieri, Uruguayan cardinal
- Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria
- Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor
- Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet
- Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, Austrian actor
- Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte, Corsican politician
- Carlo Maria Cipolla, Italian economic historian
- Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian composer
- Carlo Maria Curci, Italian theologian
- Corrado Maria Daclon, Italian journalist
- Felix Maria Diogg, Swiss painter
- Timm Maria Franz Elstner, German TV host
- Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, better known as Pope Pius IX
- Johann Maria Farina, Italian-German perfumer
- Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet
- Alessandro Maria Gaetano Galilei, Italian architect and mathematician
- Giuseppe Maria Giulietti, Italian soldier
- Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician
- Christoph Maria Herbst, German actor
- Franco Maria Malfatti, Italian politician
- Thomas Maria Mamachi, Italo-Greek Dominican theologian and historian
- Antonio Maria Maraggiano, Italian sculptor
- Carlo Maria Martini, Italian cardinal
- Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
- Tommaso Maria Napoli, Italian architect
- José María Olazábal, Spanish golfer
- Francesco Maria Piave, Italian librettist
- Carlo Maria Pintacuda, Italian racecar driver
- Francesco Maria Pritilli, Italian scholar and antiquarian
- Erich Maria Remarque, German author
- Franco Maria Ricci, Italian art publisher
- Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet
- Jan Maria Rokita, Polish politician
- Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita, Czech astronomer
- Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, king of Spain
- Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Maria Stuart, leader of the Jacobite rebellion
- José María Canlás Sison, Filipino activist and founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines
- Victor Maria Regis Sotto (born 1989), Filipino politician
- Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Italian cardinal and saint
- Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Italian composer
- Antonio Maria Vassallo, Italian painter
- Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian composer and violinist
- Gianni Versace born Giovanni Maria Versace, Italian fashion designer
- Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan
- Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor
- Carl Maria von Weber, German composer
- Edward Maria Wingfield, English explorer
- Tommaso Maria Zigliara, Italian cardinal
- Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Polish Conventual Franciscan
- Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg
- Juan María Bordaberry, Uruguayan dictator
See also
References
- ^ http://hera.ugr.es/tesisugr/15434928.pdf
- ^ p. 206.
- ^ behindthename.com; the English form Mary was at rank 214 as of 2015, after a much steeper decline down from being raked first consistently during 1880–1968. [1]
- ^ Lavagetto Ceschi, Paola (1973). Callani, Gaetano from Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 16.
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