Marija
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Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecutive vowels or the use of the palatal approximant, "Mary" in these languages is Marija if consecutive vowels are disallowed and otherwise Maria.
Marija is the most common female name in Croatia. The name Marija was the most common feminine given name until 1969.
The male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo and Mario.
Notable people with the name include:
Marija Bankauskaitė, Lithuanian ceramics artist
Marija Bursać, Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter
Marija Čolić, Serbian handball player
Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model
Marija Dūdienė, Lithuanian painter
Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archaeologist
Marija Gluvakov, Serbian pianist
Marija Jovanović, Montenegrin handball player
Marija Jurić Zagorka, Croatian writer
Marija Karan, Serbian actress
Marija Kessler, Slovenian salonist
Marija Kavtaradzė (born 1991), Lithuanian film director and screenwriter
Marija Laništanin, Serbian handball player
Marija Lastauskienė, Lithuanian writer
Marija Leiko, Latvian actress
Marija Lucija Stupica, Slovenian writer
Marija Lugarić, Croatian politician
Marija Makarovič, Slovene ethnologist
Marija Mačiulienė, Lithuanian painter
Marija Mirković, Serbian-Australian tennis player
Marija Naumova, Latvian singer
Marija Nikolova, Macedonian singer
Marija Obrenović, Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat
Marija Omaljev-Grbić, Croatian actress
Marija Pečkauskaitė, Lithuanian writer under the pen name Šatrijos Ragana
Marija Petković, Croatian nun
Marija Razgutė (born 1985), Lithuanian film producer
Marija Selak Raspudić, Croatian philosopher, bioethicist and politician
Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
Marija Šestak, Slovenian triple jumper
Marija Šestić, Bosnian Serb singer
Marija Škaričić, Croatian actress
Marija Trmčić, Serbian skier
Marija Ugrica, Serbian singer
Marija Ujević-Galetović, Croatian sculptor
Marija Vojskovič, Slovene writer
Marija Vujović, Montenegrin model
Marija Vuković, Montenegrin athlete
Marija Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
Marija Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist
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