Pronunciation | UK: /ˈmærioʊ/ US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/ Italian: [ˈmaːrjo] |
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Gender | Masculine |
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.
The Forebears.io database lists the name Mario as #9 by rank in Italy, #20 in Mexico, #18 in Argentina, #15 in Guatemala for 2014. [1]
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. [2]
The Portuguese version of the name is spelt Mário (this name has an accent on the letter A because it is a paroxytone word ending in a diphthong).[ citation needed ]
Notable people and characters named Mario include: