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.

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.

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).[citation needed]

Notable people and characters named Mario include:

People

Artists and Entertainments

Politicians and economists

Sportsmen

Others

Disambiguation

Surname

Fictional characters

  • Mario, a Nintendo video game character
  • Mario Auditore, a UBISoft video game character, see List of Assassin's Creed characters § Mario Auditore
  • Mario Disel, the male protagonist of Code Geass
  • Mario, the male pet of Brave Exkaiser, see List of Brave Exkaiser characters § Others

See also