# Mario (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mario/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Italian |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈmɑɹioʊ/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 152,403 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 151,310 / 1,093 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,602, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Mario, both of which coming from Latin Marius.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 23 | 4,427 |
| 1992 | 17 | 5,627 |
| 1993 | 14 | 6,485 |
| 1994 | 16 | 5,889 |
| 1995 | 13 | 6,894 |
| 1996 | 8 | 10,170 |
| 1997 | 9 | 9,521 |
| 1998 | 6 | 13,502 |
| 1999 | 7 | 12,191 |
| 2001 | 12 | 8,545 |
| 2002 | 6 | 14,752 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15,063 |
| 2004 | 9 | 11,294 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,019 |
| 2008 | 6 | 16,746 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,598 | 224 |
| 2012 | 1,445 | 254 |
| 2013 | 1,428 | 255 |
| 2014 | 1,368 | 269 |
| 2015 | 1,294 | 286 |
| 2016 | 1,156 | 307 |
| 2017 | 1,139 | 307 |
| 2018 | 1,022 | 328 |
| 2019 | 1,030 | 323 |
| 2020 | 999 | 329 |
| 2021 | 937 | 348 |
| 2022 | 902 | 365 |
| 2023 | 791 | 404 |
| 2024 | 810 | 398 |
| 2025 | 721 | 438 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 58 | 594 |
| 2012 | 70 | 526 |
| 2013 | 64 | 560 |
| 2014 | 56 | 616 |
| 2015 | 84 | 476 |
| 2016 | 88 | 459 |
| 2017 | 95 | 443 |
| 2018 | 90 | 454 |
| 2019 | 98 | 424 |
| 2020 | 79 | 488 |
| 2021 | 69 | 556 |
| 2022 | 67 | 561 |
| 2023 | 54 | 651 |
| 2024 | 60 | 630 |
| 2025 | 37 | 856 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: مَارْيُو
- Armenian: Մարիո
- Bulgarian: Марио
- Chinese: 馬里奧 /马里奥
- Esperanto: Mario
- German: Mario
- Hebrew: מריו
- Hindi: मारियो
- Italian: Mario
- Japanese: マリオ
- Korean: 마리오
- Polish: Mariusz
- Portuguese: Mário
- Romanian: Mario, Марио
- Russian: Ма́рио
- Slovene: Mario
- Spanish: Mario
- Swedish: Mario

## People named Mario

- Mario Puzo, American author, screenwriter, and journalist
- Mario Götze, German association football player
- Mario Mandžukić, Croatian association football player (born 1986)
- Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer (born 1954)
- Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer (1931–2024)
- Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player and team owner
- Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer
- Mário Fernandes, Brazilian-Russian professional footballer
- Mario Yepes, Colombian footballer
- Mario Haas, Austrian footballer
- Mario Adorf, German actor and writer (1930–2026)
- Mario Lemina, Gabonese-French association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.