Entry № 6564 · 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. 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.

Roman senatrix (mother and grandmother of popes) — a Italian name.

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.