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. It is a name predominantly in Croatia, Lithuanian, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, among others. 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 male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo, Mario.
The name may refer to:
Marija Bankauskaitė, Lithuanian ceramics artist
Marija Bērziņa, Latvian actress
Marija Bursać, Bosnian Serb Yugoslav resistance fighter
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 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 Mitrović, Serbian singer
Marija Obrenović, Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat
Marija Omaljev-Grbić, Croatian actress
Marija Pečkauskaitė, Lithuanian writer
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 Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin
Marija may also refer to:
USS Marija (SP-413), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1922
Marija (film), a 2016 Swiss-German film