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Mario (M)>

Mario (male)

Variants:Marius (M)
Feminine form:Maria (F) Mary (F)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Mario may be derived from Marius which was a Roman family name, probably from Mars, the Roman god of war. However Mario and Marius are also found as masculine forms of Maria (the Latinate form of Mary), derived from the Biblical name Miriam/Mariamne, of uncertain meaning.