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17-1172: Mariya Gender feminine Origin Word/name Hebrew Other names Related names Maria , Mariah , Marie , Marija , Mary Mariya is a variation of the feminine given name Maria . People [ edit ] Mariya Abakumova (born 1986), Russian Olympic javelin thrower Mariya Agapova (born 1997), Kazakhstani mixed martial arts fighter Mariya Alyokhina (born 1988), Russian political activist Mariya Babanova (1900–1983), Russian actress Mariya Baklakova (born 1997), Russian swimmer Mariya Bayda (1922–2002), Russian scout Mariya Bespalova (born 1968), Russian hammer thrower Mariya Bolikova (born 1977), Russian sprinter Mariya Borovichenko (1925–1943), Soviet soldier Mariya Bugakova (born 1985), Uzbekistani former swimmer Mariya Butyrskaya (born 1972), Russian figure skater Mariya Dashkina Maddux , Ukrainian modern dancer Mariya Dimitrova (born 1976), Bulgarian triple jumper Mariya Dolina (1922–2010), Soviet WWII dive bomber pilot and Heroine of

34-554: A nurse in a hospital in Segezha . She was an athletic person and enjoyed various sports, much like her future colleague Anna Lisitsyna. Melentyeva's partisan activities began in 1942. On 15 June Melentyeva went with fellow partisan Anna Lisitsyna and six other Komsomol members to Sheltozersky district, which was controlled by the Axis in order to conduct a reconnaissance-in-force mission and establish an underground Komsomol organization. When

51-612: A very strong devotion of Irish and Polish Catholics to the Blessed Virgin Mary , a special exception is made for two other forms of her name – Muire and Maryja : no one else may take that name, similar to the way the name Jesus is not used in most languages. The English form Mary is derived via French Marie . A great number of hypocoristic forms are in use in numerous languages. Cyrillic Maryam and Miriam have numerous variants, such as The spelling in Semitic abjads

68-496: Is mrym : Aramaic ܡܪܝܡ, Hebrew מרים, Arabic مريم. Cyrillic spellings are Мария ( Maríja ) (Russian, Bulgarian), Марыя ( Marýja ) (Belarusian), Марія ( Maríja ) (Ukrainian) and Марија ( Marija ) (Serbian, Macedonian). Georgian uses მარიამ ( Mariam ) and მარია ( Maria ); Armenian has Մարիամ ( Mariam ). Chinese has adopted the spelling 瑪麗 (simplified 玛丽, pinyin Mǎlì ). The variant Mariah (usually pronounced / m ə ˈ r aɪ ə / )

85-687: Is a form of the name used in the New Testament , standing alongside Mariam (Μαριάμ). It reflects the Syro-Aramaic name Maryam , which is in turn derived from the Biblical Hebrew name Miriam . As a result of their similarity and syncretism , the Latin original name Maria and the Hebrew-derived Maria combined to form a single name. In Germanic languages , the name's usage is connected with

102-544: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Maria (given name) Maria is a feminine given name . It is given in many languages influenced by Christianity . It was used as the feminine form of the unrelated Roman name Marius (see Maria gens ), and, after Christianity had spread across the Roman empire, it became the Latinised form of the name of Miriam: Mary, mother of Jesus . Maria ( Greek : Μαρία)

119-647: The Germanic element *mar meaning "famous". The name is also sometimes used as a male (middle) name. This was historically the case in many Central Europe countries and still is the case in countries with strong Catholic traditions, where it signified patronage of the Virgin Mary (French-speakers often did the same with Marie ). In the Arabic language the name Mariam (مريم) (also written: Meryem, Mariya) means either "white beautiful woman" or "white cow" or "a little bird with

136-4643: The Soviet Union Mariya Fadeyeva (born 1958), Russian former rower Mariya Gabriel (born 1979), Bulgarian politician Mariya Grabovetskaya (born 1987), Kazakhstani weightlifter Mariya Grinberg (1908–1978), Russian pianist Mariya Gromova (born 1984), Russian synchronized swimmer Mariya Havrysh (1931–2001), Ukrainian swimmer Mariya Ise (born 1988), Japanese actress Mariya Karashka (born 1942), Bulgarian artistic gymnast Mariya Kartalova (born 1969), Bulgarian artistic gymnast Mariya Kichukova (born 1972), Bulgarian canoeist Mariya Kirova (born 1982), better known as simply Maria, Bulgarian singer Mariya Kiselyova (born 1974), Russian synchronized swimmer Mariya Kocheva (born 1974), Bulgarian swimmer Mariya Konovalova (a.k.a. Mariya Pantyukhova]; born 1974), Russian long-distance runner Mariya Koroleva (born 1990), American synchronized swimmer Mariya Koroteyeva (born 1981), Russian hurdler Mariya Koryttseva (born 1985), Ukrainian tennis player Mariya Kozhevnikova (born 1984), Russian actress and politician Mariya Krivopolenova (1843–1924), Russian folklore performer and storyteller Mariya Kuchina (born 1993), Russian athlete Mariya Kuznetsova (singer) (1880–1966), Russian opera singer and dancer Mariya Kuznetsova (pilot) (1918–1990), Soviet fighter pilot Mariya Itkina (1932–2020), Soviet runner Mariya Litoshenko (born 1949), Soviet handball player Mariya Liver (born 1990), Ukrainian swimmer Mariya Mazina (born 1964), Russian women's épée fencer Mariya Melentyeva (1924–1943), Soviet partisan Mariya Muzychuk (born 1992), Ukrainian chess player Mariya Netesova (born 1983), Russian rhythmic gymnast Mariya Ocher (a.k.a. Mariya Ocheretianskaya; born 1986), Russian musical artist Mariya Ohurtsova (a.k.a. Mariya Ogurtsova; born 1983), Ukrainian swimmer Mariya Oktyabrskaya (1905–1944), Soviet war hero Mariya Onolbayeva (born 1978), Russian ice hockey player Mariya Orlyk (1930–2022), Ukrainian teacher and politician Mariya Ovechkina (born 1991), Russian beauty-contest contestant Mariya Panfilova (a.k.a. Mariya Sadilova; born 1987), Russian biathlete Mariya Payun (born 1953), Soviet rower Mariya Petkova (née Mariya Vergova; born 1950), Bulgarian discus thrower Mariya Petrovykh (1908—1979), Russian poet and translator Mariya Pinigina (née Mariya Kulchunova; born 1958), Soviet sprinter Mariya Pisareva (born 1934), Soviet high-jumper Mariya Ralcheva (born 1978), Ukrainian sprint canoer Mariya Rudnitskaya (1916–1983), Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, and art teacher Mariya Ryemyen (born 1987), Ukrainian sprinter Mariya Sarapova (a.k.a. Mariya Sharapova; born 1987), Russian tennis player Mariya Savinova (born 1985), Russian middle-distance runner Mariya Shah , Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh Mariya Shcherba (born 1985), Belarusian swimmer Mariya Shcherbina (born 1958), Ukrainian mathematician Mariya Shekerova (born 1988), Uzbekistani-Russian Olympic judoka Mariya Shorets (born 1990), Russian triathlete Mariya Shubina (a.k.a. Mariya Zhubina; born 1930), Soviet canoeist Mariya Sidorova (born 1979), Russian handball player Mariya Smolyachkova (born 1985), Belarusian hammer thrower Mariya Sokova (born 1979), Uzbekistani triple jumper Mariya Stadnik (born 1988), Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler Mariya Stoyanova (born 1947), Bulgarian basketball player Mariya Suzuki (born 1991), Japanese singer and actress Mariya Svistunova (1778–1866), Russian aristocrat Mariya Takeuchi (born 1955), Japanese singer-songwriter Mariya Vasilieva (born 1963), Russian doctor of juridical Science Mariya Ivanovna Vassiliéva (1884–1957), Russian painter Mariya Voloshchenko (born 1989), Ukrainian diver Mariya Voyvodova (born 1978), Bulgarian-born Swedish politician Mariya Yakovenko (born 1982), Russian javelin thrower Mariya Yamada (born 1980), Japanese actress Mariya Nazarivna Yaremchuk (born 1993), Ukrainian singer and actress Mariya Yakovlevna Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist Mariya Zhukova (1805–1855), Russian writer Mariya Zubova (1749–1799), Russian composer and concert singer See also [ edit ] Maria (disambiguation) Maria (given name) References [ edit ] [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share

153-555: The United States as of 2015, down from rank 31 held during 1973–1975. The English form Mary was at rank 214 as of 2015, after a much steeper decline down from being raked first consistently during 1880–1968. Spelling variants of Maria include: Mária (Hungarian, Slovakian), María (Greek, Icelandic, Spanish), Máire and Muire (Irish), Marya (transliterated from Cyrillic ), Marija (Latvian, but also used in other Balto-Slavic languages ) and Maria (Polish). Due to

170-534: The derived given names of Dolores , Pilar , Carmen etc.). By contrast, in northern Europe the name only rose to popularity after the Reformation . Because the name is so frequent in Christian tradition, a tradition of giving compound names has developed, with a number of such compounds themselves becoming very popular. Examples, among numerous others, include: As a feminine given name, Maria ranked 109th in

187-454: The documents Lisitsyna was carrying in her hat. Alone, Melentyeva wandered through the forest for five days without clothes, shoes, or food, carrying only the bundle of documents with her. On the sixth day she encountered the 272nd Infantry Regiment of the Red Army and was able to hand over the documents. In the summer of 1943 she was sent on another mission inside Axis-controlled territory; she

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204-752: The partisans were shot at point-blank range inside a cellar on 2 July 1943. They were later buried in Topornaya Gora, Medvezhyegorsky District. Melentyeva was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 25 September 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet, the same day as Anna Lisitsyna. She was also a recipient of the Order of the Red Star. Her image is featured in the Petrozavodsk Gallery of Heroes,

221-454: The plane that was supposed to bring the partisans back to friendly territory could not come the eight were told they would have to walk on foot across enemy lines to hand over documents containing the information they had gathered on the locations of Axis garrisons and names of individuals that were fighting for the Axis. During the crossing of the icy Svir River on 3 August 1942 her friend Anna Lisitsyna drowned, but Melentyeva managed to recover

238-521: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mariya&oldid=1251744369 " Categories : Given names Bulgarian feminine given names Russian feminine given names Japanese feminine given names Feminine given names Ukrainian feminine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

255-590: The same size as a pigeon", and it is quite popular in North Africa . One of the feminine Sahaba had the name Maria, Maria the Coptic . Maria was a frequently given name in southern Europe even in the medieval period. In addition to the simple name, there arose a tradition of naming girls after specific titles of Mary , feast days associated with Mary and specific Marian apparitions (such as María de los Dolores , María del Pilar , María del Carmen etc., whence

272-457: Was rarely given in the United States prior to the 1990s, when it bounced in popularity, from rank 562 in 1989 to rank 62 in 1998, in imitation of the name of singer Mariah Carey (whose Vision of Love topped the charts in 1990). Mariya Melentyeva Melentyeva was born on 24 January 1924 to a Karelian peasant family in the village of Pryazha. After graduating from secondary school in her village and completing nursing courses she worked as

289-533: Was supposed to make contact with underground Komsomol committee she had helped establish in Sheltozersky and report back any information they had. After an informant had reported their activities to the Finnish military a standoff ensued, with Melentyeva firing on surrounding Finnish forces until she and the other surviving partisans were captured and taken prisoner. After refusing to answer the Finnish military's questions

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