Given name & surname · Russian
Марья
“beloved”
Марья (Márʹja) is a feminine given name from Old Church Slavonic, ultimately from Aramaic. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Mary.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Марья possibly goes back to Ancient Greek Μαρία, meaning “beloved.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Марья comes from Old Church Slavonic, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Russian usage, Марья developed from מרים.
Марья’s family of names
In Russian usage, Марья has a diminutive in Ма́ня. In Russian usage, Марья shares a linguistic root with the English form Mary. In Russian usage, Марья can be written in the Roman alphabet as Márʹja.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Марья has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Aramaic roots to each of them.
Aramaicwhere Марья comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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