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Marie (given name)

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Marie
Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
PronunciationFrench: [maʁi]
Czech: [ˈmarɪjɛ]
English: /mæˈriː/
GenderFemale, Unisex (as a middle name) [citation needed]
Origin
Word/nameBiblical Hebrew, via Syro-Aramaic, Greek, Latin
Other names
Related namesMaria, 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.

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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.

Notable people named Marie

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