Given name
Mário
Mário is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Portuguese and Slovak.
Original LatinMarius
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Mário is a masculine form of Maria.
Mário’s family of names
In Portuguese usage, Mário is a masculine form of Maria. In Portuguese usage, Mário has a conventional equivalent in the English form Mario. In Portuguese usage, Mário has a conventional equivalent in the Romanian form Marius.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mário has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Mário comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MariusLatin, Romanian
- Mariafeminine form · Portuguese
- Marioalso known as · English, Italian
- MariuszPolish
- MarijoCroatian
- Marijequivalent
- Máriuszequivalent
- MarijusLithuanian
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People named Mário
- Mário ZagalloBrazilian footballer (1931–2024)
- Mário SoaresPresident of Portugal (1924–2017)
- Mário FernandesBrazilian-Russian professional footballerborn 1990
- Mário RuiPortuguese association football playerborn 1991
- Mário ColunaPortuguese footballer (1935–2014)
- Marinho PeresBrazilian footballer (1947-2023)
- Mário HipólitoAngolan footballerborn 1985
- Mário da Graça MachungoMozambican politician (1940-2020)
- Mário Pinto de AndradeAngolan poet and politician (1928–1990)
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