Mario (name)

For other uses, see Mario (disambiguation).

Mario
PronunciationUK: /ˈmærioʊ/
US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/
Italian: [ˈmaːrjo]
GenderMasculine
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.

Use in various countries

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).

Notable people and characters named Mario include:

Given name

Artists and Entertainments

Politicians and economists

Sportsmen

Others

Disambiguation

Surname

Fictional characters

  • Mario, a Nintendo video game character
  • Luigi, a Nintendo video game character whose surname is Mario

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mario Name Meaning, Origins & Popularity". Forebears.io. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Most frequent male and female given names by year of birth, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
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