Mario Name Meaning & Origin
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- Comments and insights on the name Mario
Moira, Mario and Omari are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters.
- Personal experiences with the name Mario
My dad's name is Mario
It's my cousin's name and it really suits him.
- Nicknames for Mario
Mario Bros, Mari, MA-MA, Rio, Mari-Hoe
- Meanings and history of the name Mario
Roman family name which was derived either from MARS, the name of the Roman god of War, or else from the Latin root mas, maris meaning "male". Gaius Marius was a famous Roman consul of the 2nd century BC. Since the start of the Christian era, it has occasionally been used as a masculine form of MARIA.
- Famous real-life people named Mario
Mario Lanza, opera singer
Mario Andretti, race car driver
Mario Moreno "Cantinflas", Mexican comic actor
Mario Kreutzberger, real name of entertainer Don Francisco
Mario Lopez, actor and entertainer
Mario Batali, chef
Mario Pei, linguist
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author.
Mario Minniti, Italian painter
Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather
Mario Barrett, an R&B singer who goes by simply Mario
Mario Manningham, an NFL player
Mario Lemieux, NFL player
Mario Monti, former prime minister of Italy
Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank
Mario Götze,German footballer and the scorer of the winning goal at the 2014 wc
Mario Gomez,German footballer
Mario Selman, Social Media (Musical.LY, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube)- Mario in song, story & screen
Portrait of Mario Varvogli, famous painting by Amedeo Modigliani
Mario from Super Mario games
Mario, a character from the 1976 thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Mario Auditore, from the video game Assassin's Creed II
Mario, the main character of the manga Mario by Masashi Kishimoto
Mario Andretti #11 from the Pixar franchise Cars
Americans tend to think of Mario as an Italian name. It is indeed a classic in Italy, as well as for Italian Americans such as Governor Mario Cuomo and author Mario Puzo. (Not to mention Nintendo's pseudo-Italian Mario Brothers.) But Mario is actually used in several different languages and has become a steady favorite of Latino Americans. It's a charismatic, macho choice.
From The Baby Name Wizard by Laura Wattenberg. Buy the book