Mario

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Origin and Meaning of Mario

User Submitted Origins

English

31%

African

13%

Spanish

13%

Italian

13%

Arabic

13%

Hebrew

6%

Portuguese

6%

Mexican

6%

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User Submitted Meanings

• A submission from New York, United States says the name Mario means "Latin, from a Roman family name related to Mars, the god of war".
• A submission from California, United States says the name Mario means "God of war" and is of Italian origin.
• According to a user from Pennsylvania, United States, the name Mario is of Spanish origin and means "Good and kind".

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Wiktionary

From Italian and Spanish Mario, both of whom derive from Latin Marius.

1. A male given name.

Mario was also found in the following language(s): Esperanto, Estonian, German, Italian, Latin, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish

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Fun Facts about the name Mario

• What name lists does Mario rank for?

  #57	Unique Boy Names

  #29	Boy Names Unique to the West

• How Popular is the name Mario? Mario is the 492^nd most popular name of all time. As a last name Mario was the 32,365^th most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Mario have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 145,110 babies born with the first name Mario in the United States. That's more than enough people named Mario to occupy the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines with an estimated population of 109,000 (as of July 1, 2012).
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Mario? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1897 when it was given as a first name to 7 new born babies.
• When was Mario first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Mario is Thursday, November 2nd, 1871.
• What year had the most people named Mario born? The highest recorded use of the first name Mario was in 1980 with a total of 2,935 babies. That's a lot of babies named Mario!
• Random Mario Factoid: According to the 1985 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Mario ranks 71^st in popularity as a baby boy's name in New Mexico. Imagine that, 41 babies in New Mexico have the same name as you in 1985.
• Weird things about the name Mario: Your name in reverse order is Oiram. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Moria. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Mario? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 711 people with the last name Mario.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Mario? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Mario as their last name since less than 1 person in 417k people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!

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