Marija

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 Razgutė (born 1985), Lithuanian film producer
 * Marija Bankauskaitė, Lithuanian ceramics artist
 * Marija Bursać, Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter
 * Marija Čolić, Serbian handball player
 * Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model
 * Marija Dūdienė, Lithuanian painter
 * Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archaeologist
 * Marija Gluvakov, Serbian pianist
 * Marija Jovanović, Montenegrin handball player
 * Marija Jurić Zagorka, Croatian writer
 * Marija Karan, Serbian actress
 * Marija Kessler, Slovenian salonist
 * Marija Kavtaradzė (born 1991), Lithuanian film director and screenwriter
 * Marija Laništanin, Serbian handball player
 * Marija Lastauskienė, Lithuanian writer
 * Marija Leiko, Latvian actress
 * Marija Lucija Stupica, Slovenian writer
 * Marija Lugarić, Croatian politician
 * Marija Makarovič, Slovene ethnologist
 * Marija Mačiulienė, Lithuanian painter
 * Marija Mirković, Serbian-Australian tennis player
 * Marija Naumova, Latvian singer
 * Marija Nikolova, Macedonian singer
 * Marija Obrenović, Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat
 * Marija Omaljev-Grbić, Croatian actress
 * Marija Pečkauskaitė, Lithuanian writer under the pen name Šatrijos Ragana
 * Marija Petković, Croatian nun
 * Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer
 * Marija Šestak, Slovenian triple jumper
 * Marija Šestić, Bosnian Serb singer
 * Marija Škaričić, Croatian actress
 * Marija Trmčić, Serbian skier
 * Marija Ugrica, Serbian singer
 * Marija Ujević-Galetović, Croatian sculptor
 * Marija Vojskovič, Slovene writer
 * Marija Vujović, Montenegrin model
 * Marija Vuković, Montenegrin athlete
 * Marija Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
 * Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
 * Marija Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist