Mary Name Meaning, Origin, Celebrities, Graphic Designs

Name : Mary

Origin : Hebrew, Coptic / Ancient Egyptian, Aramic, Cyrillic.

Mary name meaning 🔗

The name’s etymology is unclear. Since many Levite names are of Egyptian origin, the name could come from the Egyptian mr “love”, as in the Egyptian names mry.t-jmn (Merit-Amun) “beloved of Amun” and mry.t-rꜥ (Merytre) “beloved of Ra”.

An older Grecian pronunciation of this name, Maryām (Μαριάμ), is found in the Greek Old Testament (3rd century BCE) and in the New Testament manuscripts as the name of several women, including Mary, mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Variants of this name include Greek and Latin Maria, whence French Marie and English Mary.

“Miriam” is a common female name in countries that speak English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Dutch as well as among Ashkenazi Jews. It is also fairly common in Scandinavian countries, Italy, Romania, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.

Celebrities named Mary 🔗

• Saint Mary: The virgin Mary, The mother of Jesus Christ.
• Mary Magdalene: a Bible character.
• Mary Catherine McCormack is an American actress. She has had leading roles as Justine Appleton on the series Murder One, as Deputy National Security Adviser Kate Harper on The West Wing, as Deputy U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon on In Plain Sight, and as Peggy on the comedy series The Kids Are Alright.
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer.
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an American actress and singer. Her first major role was that of Jessica Bennett on the NBC soap opera Passions.
• Mary-Kate Olsen is an American businesswoman, fashion designer, equestrian, and former actress.
• Gladys Louise Smith, known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era.
• Mary Jane Blige is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress, and entrepreneur.
• Mary Elizabeth Ellis is an American actress.
• Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, producer, and social advocate.
• Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss in 1990, Parker came to prominence for film roles in Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Client, Bullets Over Broadway, A Place for Annie, Boys on the Side, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Maker.
• Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie , known simply as Marie Curie , was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
• Mary Somerville was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
• Mary Anning: English fossil hunter and anatomist.

Graphic designs of the name Mary 🔗

Mary the name engraved on a wooden surface: