Mario (given name)

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Mario
Pronunciation UK: /ˈmæri/
US: /ˈmɑːri/
Italian: [ˈmaːrjo]
Gender Male
Language(s) Italian, French, Croatian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, English

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.

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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).

Notable people and characters named Mario include:

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References

  1. "Most frequent male and female given names by year of birth, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.