Entry № 6509 · Hebrew origin

Marija Marija — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-ree-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Mary (Marija Šerifović Eurovision + Marija Gimbutas)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "mary (marija šerifović eurovision + marija gimbutas)".

Marija is from the Croatian / Serbian / Lithuanian / Latvian / Slovenian Marija — South Slavic + Baltic rendition of Mary — from the Hebrew Miryam. Marija is one of the South Slavic + Baltic feminine names.

Mary (Marija Šerifović Eurovision + Marija Gimbutas) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

Марија
Transliteration
Marija
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.ri.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marija stands.

Marija does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Marijas before her.

Real people
Marija Gimbutas
Lithuanian-American archaeologist + Civilization of the Goddess.
1921 – 1994
In fiction
Marija
Slavic-Baltic Mary.

Names connected to Marija.

The number behind Marija.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marija reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.