Name: Marija
Gender: Female
Usage: Marija, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Marija are in general originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia.
Variants: For another variant of the name Marija across the world, see Maria.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Marija is: Bitter.
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Numerology of the first name Marija: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 7. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: spiritual, intelligent, analytical, reserved, knowledgeable, mysterious, intuitive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Philosophical, Spiritual
Ruling planet: Neptune
Colors: Green
Gemstones: Moonstone
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The name Marija is ranked on the 1,608th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 279700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Marija has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Marija for each year.
The name day of Marija is 12 November.
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History and Origin
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. It is a name predominantly in Croatia, Lithuanian, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, among others. 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 male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo, Mario.
The name may refer to:
- Marija Bankauskaitė, Lithuanian ceramics artist
- Marija Bērziņa, Latvian actress
- Marija Bursać, Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter
- 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 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 Mitrović, Serbian singer
- Marija Obrenović, Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat
- Marija Omaljev-Grbić, Croatian actress
- Marija Pečkauskaitė, Lithuanian writer
- Marija Petković, Croatian nun
- 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 Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
- Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
Marija may also refer to:
- USS Marija (SP-413), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1922
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