Entry № 6544 · Italian origin

Marozia Marozia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-ROHT-see-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Italian
Meaning
"Roman senatrix (mother and grandmother of popes)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Italian)

A name that means "roman senatrix (mother and grandmother of popes)".

Marozia (c. 890-c. 937) is from the Italian Maria. The Roman senatrix who effectively controlled the papacy in the early 10th century — through her relationships with multiple popes and her son Pope John XI, grandson Pope John XII, and great-grandson Pope Benedict VII. Historians call this era "the Pornocracy" — the lurid Latin chronicles say she was Pope Sergius III's mistress at fifteen. Eventually imprisoned by her own son Alberic II.

Featured in Lampert of Hersfeld and Liutprand of Cremona's chronicles.

Roman senatrix. Mother of Pope John XI, grandmother of Pope John XII.

The name in its native script.

Marozia
Transliteration
Marozia
Pronunciation
/ məˈroʊt.si.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Marozia stands.

Marozia 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.

Marozias before her.

Real people
Marozia
Roman senatrix who controlled the papacy.
c. 890 – c. 937
In fiction
Marozia
Featured in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
1972

Names connected to Marozia.

The number behind Marozia.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marozia reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.