Marie (given name) (original) (raw)

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Marie

Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
Pronunciation French: [maʁi]Czech: [ˈmarɪjɛ]English: /mæˈriː/
Gender Female, Unisex (as a middle name) [_citation needed_]
Origin
Word/name Biblical Hebrew, via Syro-Aramaic, Greek, Latin
Other names
Related names Maria, Mariah, Mary, Elmarie

Marie is a variation of the feminine given name Maria.

It is also the standard form of the name in Czech, and is also used, either as a variant of Mary or Maria or a borrowing from French, in Danish, English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.

Marie, Marié or Mariê (真理絵、万里絵、麻里絵、まりえ、マリエ) is also a feminine Japanese given name.

French Marie, just as Italian/Spanish Maria, is traditionally also used in masculine compound names or more rarely as a middle name, especially in Catholic families.

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