Mary

From Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם‎ (maryām) or Hebrew מִרְיָם‎ (miryām), of uncertain origin.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛəɹɪ/
• (General American) enPR: mârʹē
  • (Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /ˈme(ə)ɹi/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɹi/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi

Mary (plural Marys)

1. A female given name.
   • 1821 Lord Byron, Don Juan: Canto the Fifth: IV:

     I have a passion for the name of Mary, / For once it was a magic sound to me: / And still it half calls up the realm of fairy / Where I beheld what never was to be.

   • 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Cottage Names:

     Mary, which is as common as a white violet, and like that has something indestructibly sweet and simple, and fit for all wear, high or low, suits the cottage or the palace, the garden or the field, the pretty and the ugly, the old and the young;

   • 1905 George M.Cohan, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Mary is a Grand Old Name ( a song)

     For it was Mary; Mary / Plain as any name can be / But with propriety, society / Will say "Marie". / But it was Mary; Mary / Long before the fashions came / And there's something there that sounds so square / It's a grand old name.

   • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN

     They had called their children Ann, Mary, and John as a reaction against their own fancy tricksy names. Both mothers thought these names sadly unimaginative and each blamed the child of the other for the lack of vision and style.

2. The Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 1:18:

     :

     Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

3. The 19th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
4. Any of several other women in the New Testament, notably Mary Magdalene and Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 10:41:

     :

     Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

5. (Ireland, dated) A middle name for a male, given in honour of the Virgin Mary.

• The given name was considered too sacred to use before the end of the 12th century. It was very popular from the 17th to the 20th century.

• Amina

• → Cebuano: Mary, Marie
• → Chinese: 瑪麗 (Mǎlì), 瑪莉 (Mǎlì), 瑪利 (Mǎlì)
• → Danish: Mary
• → Faroese: Marý
• → Hawaiian: Mele, Mere
• → Japanese: マリー (Marī)
• → Manx: Mayree
• → Maori: Mere, Meri
• → Norwegian: Mary
• → Scottish Gaelic: Màiri
• → Swedish: Mary
• → Tahitian: Mere
• → Thai: แมรี (mɛɛ-rii)

• Army, Mayr, Myra, Yarm, army, yarm

From English Mary, from Old French Marie, from Latin Maria, from Ancient Greek Μαρία (María), Μαριάμ (Mariám), from Aramaic מַרְיָם‎ (maryām) or Hebrew מִרְיָם‎ (miryām), of uncertain origin.

Mary

1. a female given name

From English Mary. A variant of the traditional Danish Marie.

Mary

1. A female given name.

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 20 092 females with the given name Mary have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1900s decade. Accessed on 10 August 2011.

From English Mary. A variant of the traditional Norwegian Maria or Marie.

Mary

1. A female given name.

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 4 879 females with the given name Mary living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak around 1920 . Accessed on 10 August 2011.

From English Mary as a variant of the traditional Swedish Maria. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1808.

Mary c (genitive Marys)

1. A female given name.
   • 2004 Majgull Axelsson, Den jag aldrig var, Prisma, →ISBN, page 17:

     Hon visste att hon hade vuxit upp i ett vitt hus, att hennes mor hade döpt henne till Mary och att hennes far hade kallat henne Marie och att hon långt upp i tonåren hade lekt att hon levde två liv, att hon hade ett andra jag som vaknade när hon somnade och somnade nät hon vaknade.

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 10 519 females with the given name Mary living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 10 August 2011.

Borrowed from English Mary.

Mary

1. A female given name