Mariia

Mariia (plural Mariias)

1. a transliteration of the Russian female given name Мари́я (Maríja), equivalent to Mary.
   • 1982, Hugh Ragsdale, “Paul I (Pavel Petrovich)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 27 (Pares, Bernard – Peterhof Conferences of 1905), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 66:

     Sophia Dorothea adopted the Russian Orthodox name Mariia Fedorovna.

   • 1993, Brenda Meehan, “Popular Piety, Local Initiative, and the Founding of Women’s Religious Communities in Russia, 1764–1907”, in Stephen K[almar] Batalden, editor, Seeking God: The Recovery of Religious Identity in Orthodox Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia, DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Popular Religious Culture and Orthodox Identity), page 92:

     [I]n 1838 the community was elevated to a monastery, and [Margarita] Tuchkova, having been tonsured and given the monastic name Mariia, was appointed abbess.

   • 2011, Eliyana R. Adler, “The Wisdom of Women Builds Her House: Jewish School Girls”, in In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Girls in Tsarist Russia, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, “Characteristics” section, page 104:

     Even a look at the names of pupils supports the conclusion that the student body was diverse. Where such information is available, Yettas and Rakhels attended classes with Mariias and Terezas. In other words, the schools were not composed entirely of the wealthy or the Russified elements of the Jewish community, who might have chosen to give their children Russian names, but instead drew on a far wider selection of families, including those who relied on traditional Yiddish and biblical names.

2. a transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name Марі́я (Maríja), equivalent to Mary.
   • 1981, William A[ndrew] Czumer, translated by Louis T. Laychuk, “The Political Process in the Whitford District of Alberta”, in Recollections About the Life of the First Ukrainian Settlers in Canada, Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, →ISBN, page 127:

     The post office searched for the sender and found another Gordichuk, who also came from Bukovyna and had a wife there named Mariia.

   • 1993, “Mazepa, Maryna”, in Danylo Husar Struk, editor, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, volume III (L–Pf), Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 355, column 2:

     After the death of her husband in 1665, she devoted herself to church and community work, joined the *Lutske Brotherhood of the Elevation of the Cross in 1666, and later entered a monastery, where she took the name Mariia Mahdalyna.

   • 1997, Harvard Ukrainian Studies, volume 19, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 282:

     Although recalled much less often than many of the men, Anna nevertheless appeared on the Church schedule much more often than did most women’s names; only Mariia was honored more often, but from ancient times the Orthodox Church preserved “the honorable custom not to give to those newly christened the names of the Lord Jesus Christ or His Most Holy Mother. . . . .”

• Mariia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Phonetic rendering of the Swedish pronunciation of Maria.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑriː.ɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝riː.ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑriːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Ma‧rii‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): Ma‧riia

Mariia

1. a female given name

• Mariia is the 648^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 397 female individuals (and as a middle name to 1,482 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.