Mario (name)

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Mario
Pronunciation UK: /ˈmærioʊ/
US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/
Italian: [ˈmaːrjo]
GenderMasculine
Language(s) Italian, French, Croatian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, English, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

Mario is the Italian, French, Croatian, Czech, Norwegian, Slovak, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovene, Polish, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Greek, German, Dutch, and English form of the Latin Roman name Marius.[ citation needed ]

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Use in various countries

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 spelt Mário (to indicate that the "a" is stressed).[ citation needed ]

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  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.
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