Mario (given name)

Name
UK: /ˈmærioʊ/
US: /ˈmɑːrioʊ/
Italian: [ˈmaːrjo]GenderMaleLanguage(s)Italian, French, Croatian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Romanian, Greek, English

Mario is the Italian, French, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovene, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, German, Dutch, and Nigerian English form of the Latin Roman name Marius.

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.[1]

The Portuguese version of the name is spelled Mário (to indicate that the "a" is stressed).

Notable people and characters named Mario include:

Given name

Artists and musicians

  • Mario (singer) (born 1986), Mario Dewar Barrett, an American R&B singer
  • Mario Adorf (born 1930), German actor
  • Mario Amaya (1933–1986), American art critic
  • Mario Biondi (born 1971), Italian singer
  • Mario Cantone (born 1959), American comedian and actor
  • Mario Chicot, also simply Mario, zouk singer from Guadeloupe
  • Mario Dal Fabbro (1913–1990), Italian American sculptor and furniture designer
  • Mario Domm (born 1977), Mexican singer and member of Camila
  • Mario Duplantier, French drummer
  • Mario Frangoulis (born 1967), Greek tenor
  • Mario Lanza (1921–1959), Italian American opera tenor singer and actor
  • Mario del Monaco (1915–1982), Italian tenor
  • Mario Maurer (born 1988), Thai actor and model
  • Mario Milita (1923–2017), Italian voice actor
  • Mario Moro (1918–2002), Italian singer
  • Mario Nascimbene (1913–2002), Italian film score composer
  • Mario Sammarco (1868–1930), Italian operatic baritone
  • Mario Sciacca, Italian-Danish singer, part of the Danish pop duo Muri & Mario
  • Mario Tozzi (1895–1979), Italian painter
  • Mario Vazquez (born 1977), American Idol contestant and singer
  • Mario Van Peebles (born 1957), American director and actor
  • Mario Winans (born 1974), R&B singer

Politicians

Sportsmen

Others

Surname

Fictional characters

  • Mario, a Nintendo video game character

See also

References

  1. ^ "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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