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. 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 name Marija was the most common feminine given name until 1969.
The male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo and Mario.
Notable people with the name include:
Marija Atanassowa (1926–2000), Bulgarian pilot Marija Bankauskaitė (1933–1992), Lithuanian ceramics artist
Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model
Marija Dūdienė (1927–2012), Lithuanian painter Marija Essen (1872–1956), Russian revolutionary and writer
Marija Gluvakov (born 1973), Serbian pianist
Marija D. Ilić (born 1951), Serbian-American electrical engineer
Marija Karan (born 1982), Serbian actress
Marija Kavtaradzė (born 1991), Lithuanian film director and screenwriter Marija Kessler (1860–1939), Slovenian salonist Marija Klobčar, Slovenian ethnologist
Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957), Lithuanian writer Marija Leiko (1887–1938), Latvian actress
Marija Makarovič (born 1930), Slovene ethnologist
Marija Mirković (born 1990), Serbian-Australian tennis player
Marija Nikolova, Macedonian singer
Marija Obrenović (c. 1831–1876), Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat Marija Omaljev-Grbić (born 1982), Croatian actress Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), Lithuanian writer under the pen name Šatrijos Ragana Marija Petković (1892–1966), Croatian nun
Marija Razgutė (born 1985), Lithuanian film producer
Marija Šestak (born 1979), Slovenian triple jumper Marija Šestić (born 1987), Bosnian Serb singer
Marija Lucija Stupica (1950–2002), Slovenian writer
Marija Ugrica (born 1995), Serbian singer
Marija Vojskovič (1915–1997), Slovene writer Marija Vučenović (born 1993), Serbian javelin thrower
Marija Vuković (born 1992), Montenegrin athlete
Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
Marija Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist
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