Meaning and history
Mário is the Italian and Spanish form of Marius. Notable bearers include American racecar driver Mario Andretti (1940-) and Canadian hockey player Mario Lemieux (1965-), and the name is also associated with Nintendo’s moustached Italian plumber character, who first appeared as the playable hero of Donkey Kong in 1981. In Japanese Katakana, his name is written マリオ (Mario), and he was reportedly named after Mario Segale (1934-2018), an American businessman who rented a warehouse to Nintendo.
20062006: 2,295 births, rank #178
2007: 2,291 births, rank #180
2008: 2,167 births, rank #184
2009: 1,938 births, rank #198
2010: 1,708 births, rank #208
20112011: 1,598 births, rank #224
2012: 1,445 births, rank #254
2013: 1,428 births, rank #255
2014: 1,368 births, rank #268
2015: 1,294 births, rank #285
20162016: 1,156 births, rank #307
2017: 1,139 births, rank #307
2018: 1,022 births, rank #326
2019: 1,030 births, rank #323
2020: 999 births, rank #329
20212021: 937 births, rank #348
2022: 902 births, rank #365
2023: 791 births, rank #404
2024: 810 births, rank #398
20252025: 721 births, rank #438
Mario moved from #398 to #438 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1980, with 2,936 births.