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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Hebrew: Bitter; the star of the sea
  2. Latin: Full of grace
  3. Latin: The sea

First name variations: Mary, Marya, Mariah, Marie, Malia, Ri, Maricelle, Marcella, Maria, Maricel

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Asturian-Leonese, and Catalan: topographic name for someone living by the sea, from mar ‘sea’ (Latin mare).
  2. German: nickname from Middle High German mar(w) ‘tender’, ‘delicate’.
  3. Hungarian (Már): from a short form of the personal name Márkus or Márk, Hungarian forms of Marcus and Mark; or possibly from the personal name Márton, Hungarian form of Martin.
  4. Chinese: variant of Ma.