Given name
Māris
Māris is a masculine given name from Latin. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Latvian usage, Māris is a masculine form of Māra.
Māris’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Māris is a masculine form of Māra. In Latvian usage, Māris has a related form in MARIJA. In Latvian usage, Māris has a conventional equivalent in the English form Maurice.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Māris
- Māris VerpakovskisLatvian footballer (born 1979)
- Māris KučinskisLatvian politician (born 1961)
- Māris ŠtrombergsLatvian bicycle motocross racer (born 1987)
- Māris GailisLatvian politician (born 1951)
- Māris LiepaLatvian ballet dancer (1936–1989)
- Māris BružiksLatvian triple jumperborn 1962
- Māris RiekstiņšLatvian politician (born 1963)
- Māris UrtānsLatvian shot putterborn 1981
- Māris ČaklaisLatvian poet (1940–2003)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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>99% boys
Mojžiš
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Marss
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Matouš
“gift of the Lord”
>99% boys
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