Mario
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mario, from the Latin personal name Marias, which is probably of Etruscan origin, but was widely adopted from an early date in the Christian era as a male equivalent of the fema
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɾjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mario is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Italy it is the 24th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 163(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 251
- BRBrazil1 in 939
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mario itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- #164 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 521 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129 (inferred from the name graph)
376,760 named Martin
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mario, from the Latin personal name Marias, which is probably of Etruscan origin, but was widely adopted from an early date in the Christian era as a male equivalent of the female Christian name Maria.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mario counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | — | 376,760as Martin | 1 in 28 | 377K | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | #47 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 163 | 55K | Mario | 175 |
| US United States | #248 | 271,877as Martin | 1 in 1.2K | 703K | Mario | 521 |
| IT Italy | #24 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 251 | 565 | Mario | 250 |
| BR Brazil | #105 | 225,399 | 1 in 939 | 269K | Mario | 241 |
| NL Netherlands | #230 | 114,219as Martinus | 1 in 151 | 113K | Mario | 94 |
| SE Sweden | — | 73,843as Martin | 1 in 138 | 74K | Mario | 67 |
| DK Denmark | #730 | 36,799as Martin | 1 in 159 | 37K | Mario | 71 |
| HR Croatia | — | 32,708 | 1 in 129 | 33K | — | 7 |
376,760 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mario is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the Roman family name Marius (see main dictionary), but in modern times generally taken as a masculine equivalent of MARIA.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Spanish, a male given name, equivalent to English Marius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, del latín Marius, nombre gentilicio romano, quizá de Marte/etrusco Maris
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, do nome lat. Marius; sobrenome fixado como filho de Ser Mario
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Etimologia probabilmente legata a Marte; spesso interpretato come maschile di Maria. S. Mario martire (10 gennaio).
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mario Puzob. 1920USAmerican author, screenwriter, and journalist
- Mario Vargas Llosab. 1936PEPeruvian, Spanish and Dominican novelist and writer (1936–2025)
- Pope Francisb. 1936ARnot in their usual name266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025)
- Mario Molinab. 1943MXMexican chemical engineer (1943–2020)
- Mario Montib. 1943ITItalian economist and politician (1943-)
- Mario Draghib. 1947ITItalian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
- Miguel Díaz-Canelb. 1960CUnot in their usual nameFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
- Mario Gómezb. 1985DEGerman-Spanish association football player (born 1985)
- Mario Mandžukićb. 1986HRCroatian association football player (born 1986)
- Mario Balotellib. 1990ITItalian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 136 sources across 73 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 269K | #187 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 225K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 224K | #141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 212K | #261 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 33K | #13 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 29K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.9K | #839 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.1K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.1K | #362 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #141 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Mario?
- In the etymology graph, Mariano, Marius and Mariusz are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Mario mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mario, from the Latin personal name Marias, which is probably of Etruscan origin, but was widely adopted from an early date in the Christian era as a male equivalent of the fema… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Is Mario a male or female name?
- Mario is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mario have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 377 thousand people named Martin, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mario most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mario is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 129 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Mario?
- A machine transcription gives /maɾjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Mario?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 225,399 people named Mario in 2022, about 1 in 939 residents.
- How common is Mario compared with other names?
- In Italy, Mario is the 24th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marioThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mario” — the 24th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.