Marija

For the 2016 drama, see Marija (film).

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

The Glorification of Mary by Botticelli. The reverence for Mary, the mother of Jesus, is in large part responsible for the use of the name Mary and its variants.
Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Hebrew via Latin and Greek
Other names
Related names	Mary, Maria, Mariah, Marie, Mariya, Marijana, Marjana, Maryam, Miriam

Marija is the most common female name in Croatia.^[1] The name Marija was the most common feminine given name until 1969.^[2]

The male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo and Mario.

Notable people with the name include:

• Marija Bankauskaitė (1933–1992), Lithuanian ceramics artist
• Marija Bursać (1920–1943), Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter
• Marija Čolić (born 1990), Serbian handball player
• Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model
• Marija Dūdienė (1927–2012), Lithuanian painter
• Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994), Lithuanian-American archaeologist
• Marija Gluvakov (born 1973), Serbian pianist
• Marija Jovanović (born 1985), Montenegrin handball player
• Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957), Croatian writer
• Marija Karan (born 1982), Serbian actress
• Marija Kessler (1860–1939), Slovenian salonist
• Marija Kavtaradzė (born 1991), Lithuanian film director and screenwriter
• Marija Laništanin (born 1995), Serbian handball player
• Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957), Lithuanian writer
• Marija Leiko (1887–1938), Latvian actress
• Marija Lucija Stupica (1950–2002), Slovenian writer
• Marija Lugarić (born 1978), Croatian politician
• Marija Makarovič (born 1930), Slovene ethnologist
• Marija Mačiulienė, Lithuanian painter
• Marija Mirković (born 1990), Serbian-Australian tennis player
• Marija Naumova (born 1973), Latvian singer
• Marija Nikolova, Macedonian singer
• Marija Obrenović (c. 1831–1876), Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat
• Marija Omaljev-Grbić (born 1982), Croatian actress
• Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), Lithuanian writer under the pen name Šatrijos Ragana
• Marija Petković (1892–1966), Croatian nun
• Marija Razgutė (born 1985), Lithuanian film producer
• Marija Selak Raspudić (born 1982), Croatian philosopher, bioethicist and politician
• Marija Šerifović (born 1984), Serbian singer
• Marija Šestak (born 1979), Slovenian triple jumper
• Marija Šestić (born 1987), Bosnian Serb singer
• Marija Škaričić (born 1977), Croatian actress
• Marija Trmčić (born 1986), Serbian skier
• Marija Ugrica (born 1995), Serbian singer
• Marija Ujević-Galetović (1933–2023), Croatian sculptor
• Marija Vojskovič (1915–1997), Slovene writer
• Marija Vujović (born 1984), Montenegrin model
• Marija Vuković (born 1992), Montenegrin athlete
• Marija Vukčević (born 1986), Montenegrin football player
• Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
• Marija Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist

See also

• USS Marija (SP-413), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1922
• Marija (film), a 2016 Swiss-German film