1629,Thomas Adams,Meditations upon Creed, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol (1862), volume 3, page 211:
Yet herein they come short of the monks and friars in their conceits of the wordMaria; they have so tossed it and turned it, so anagrammatized and transposed it, that never were five poor letters so worried since time did put them into the alphabet.
1776, Adam Fitz-Adam:The World of Adam Fitz-Adam. Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, butMaria.
I've just kissed a girl namedMaria / And suddenly I found how wonderful a sound can be! /Maria! Say it loud and there's music playing / Say it soft and it's almost like praying
2024, “national data”, inPopular Baby Names[1] (dataset names.zip), US Social Security Administration, archived fromthe original on 2024-3-10:
,Maria is the 91th most common female given name for US births in 2022. According to the 2010 United States Census,Maria is the 7395th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4500 individuals.Maria is most common among Hispanic/Latino (58.20%) and White (31.93%) individuals.
[2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 50 339 females with the given name Maria have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the last frequency peak in the 1980s. Accessed on March 20th, 2011.
IESUSEN CHRISTUSEN syndymys/ nein oli. CoscaMaria hene’ eitens oli Josephijn kihlattu enne’ quin hen weij sen cotians leuttin hen oleua raskas pyheste Hengest.
[JESUSEN KRISTUKSEN syntymys, näin oli. KoskaMaria hänen äitins oli Josefin kihlattu enne’ kuin hän vei sen kotians löyettiin hän oleva raskas pyhästä Hengest.]
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his motherMary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Sirkku oli kovin väärä nimi. Mikä vahinko, etteivät ihmiset voineet etukäteen tietää miltä heidän lapsensa tulevat näyttämään ja sitten antoivat niille ihan vääriä nimiä.Maria sen olisi pitänyt,Maria tämä oli, kapeat kasvot ja tumma tukka, ei mikään Sirkku voinut näyttää tuollaiselta.
Sirkku wasn't quite the right name. Such a shame it is that people couldn't foresee what their children would look like to prevent giving them names that are completely wrong. She should have been aMaria. Definitely aMaria, narrow face and dark hair, no Sirkku would look anything like that.
Olin lapsena harmitellut nimeäni, jota silloin ei ollut muilla kuin mummoilla ja lahkolaisperheiden jälkeläisillä. Yläasteella minua oli piikitelty NeitsytMariaksi, vaikka raju ja poikamainen käytökseni oli kaikkea muuta kuin neitseellistä. Olin usein ihmetellyt miksi agnostikkovanhempani olivat valinneet niin vahvasti kristillisyyteen liittyvän nimen. He väittivät sen johtuvan vain siitä, että molempien isoäitieni nimi oli ollutMaria.
As a child, I had regretted my name that only grandmas and children in sectarian families used to have back then. In junior high I had been mocked as a "VirginMary", even though my rough and boyish behavior was anything but virginal. I often wondered why my agnostic parents gave me a name so heavily associated with Christianity. They just said it was because both of my grandmothers had also been calledMaria.
mitäMariana katolla, sitä vappuna vaolla ―the weather at the end ofMarch bodes the weather whenMay begins (literally, “what you have on the roof on St Mary's (day), you will have on the furrows on May Day / you will have as much snow on the fields on May Day as you had on your roof onLady Day”)
Maria is the 26th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 20,160 female individuals (and as a middle name to 179,143 more, making it more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 53 male individuals, according toFebruary 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
The genitive formMariä is restricted to Catholic contexts, and chiefly to theVirgin Mary. It is now very rare outside of fixed terms likeMariä Verkündigung(“Feast of theAnnunciation”). In contemporary German, the genitiveMariens is also widely restricted to the Virgin, while the only form commonly used for other persons isMarias.
In historic texts the name is often declined as in Latin. SeeMarīa.
2012 Baibala Hemolele, Mataio 1:18 (tr. KJV Matthew 1:18):
Penei hoʻi ka hānau ʻana o Iesū Kristo: I hoʻopalau ʻē ʻia kona makuwahine ʻoMaria na Iosepa, ʻaʻole naʻe lāua i pili, a ʻikea ʻo ia, ua hāpai na ka ʻUhane Hemolele.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
a femalegiven name originating from the Bible, of 19th century usage (but possibly pronounced likeMalia)
(slightly humorous) An expression of surprise when somethingunintended, as well asloud and/orproblematic happens as aside effect ofhandling (orinteracting with) something (e.g. fixing an object and more parts fall off, or something falls and makes a loud noise).
Variably causes syntactic doubling in the phraseAve Maria 'Hail Mary':/ave(m)‿maria/.
When used as an interjection:
The starting /m/ is often lengthened in pronunciation for greater emphasis.
When used in Sense 1.1 (expression of resignation), as well as Sense 4 (unexpected problems) the word is often used alone.
When used to express exasperation (Sense 1), the stressed /i/ is usually lengthened: [mːːäˈriːː.ä].
When used for surprise in further unexpected problems arising (Sense 4), the word is pronunced a lot faster and the final syllable is not pronounced: [mːäˈriˑj]
Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995,→ISBN
[3] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 16 621 females with the given name Maria living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with frequency peaks the 1990s and the 2000s. Accessed on April 18th, 2011.
Traditionally popular as a given name in Sweden, Maria was (for example) the most common first name of women born in the 1960s. It is also a popularmiddle name.
