Mario (given name)
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Mario is the Italian, French, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, German, Dutch, Scandinavian and Nigerian English form of the Latin Roman name Marius.
Pronunciation | UK: /ˈmærioʊ/ US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/ Italian: [ˈmaːrjo] |
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Gender | Male |
Language(s) | Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, English |
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.[1]
The Portuguese version of the name is spelled Mário (to indicate that the "a" is stressed).
In Latin Names the meaning of the name Mario is: Hammer. Mars (Roman god of war). Also one of the number of masculine variants of Mary that can be attributed to the Virgin Mary. It comes from the name Marius, which means "male." Marius was later the name of a game played in ancient Rome, called "crassus brevis homo saliens tibiis".
crassus brevis was the inspiration for the highly popular and beloved Nintendo franchise Super Mario and its eponymous character Mario, developed by Shigeru Miyamoto Ish Kofetzo
Notable people and characters named Mario include: