Pronunciation | UK: /ˈmærioʊ/ US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/ Italian: [ˈmaːrjo] |
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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.
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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Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Christianity.
Carlos is a masculine given name, and is the Maltese, Portuguese and Spanish variant of the English name Charles, from the Germanic Carl.
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Pérez is a very common Castilian Spanish surname of patronymic origin.
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Bruno is a given name and surname of Old Germanic origin. In the Latin languages, it comes from Brunus, a Latinized form of a Germanic name composed of the root brun-, which can mean burnished, also present in the words braun and brown.
Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin gens Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honour of Saint Sergius, or in Kievan Rus', of Sergius of the Holy Caves, one of saint Fathers of Kiev, Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and has been the name of four popes. It has given rise to numerous variants, present today mainly in the Romance and Slavic languages. It is not common in English, although the Anglo-French name Sergeant is possibly related to it.
Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (Albertus) of Germanic Albert. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are Albertito in Spain or Albertico in some parts of Latin America, Albertino in Italian as well as Tuco as a hypocorism. It derives from the name Adalberto which in turn derives from Athala and Berth.
Alfredo is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name.
Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, often a diminutive of Alessandro or Alexander. It is also a surname.
Roberto is an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish variation of the male given name Robert.
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