Maro
One of the rarest names here: most Poles have never met a Maro, and the few who carry it split almost evenly between women and men. The root is Latin, giving the sense "friend of Bacchus".
Maro Pronunciation
Maro is pronounced MAH-ro (/ˈmarɔ/).
What Maro means
Where Maro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Maro comes from Latin. In its oldest life it served as a cognomen, a family byname, not a first name. Its most famous bearer was the poet Publius Vergilius Maro, the man we now call Virgil. The word probably reaches back to Etruscan maru, a title of office, later coloured by Latin mare, the sea.
The short meaning given here, friend of Bacchus, belongs to a second Maro. In Greek myth, Maron was a companion of Bacchus, the god of wine. That sense attached to the name later. A Polish dictionary renders it as przyjaciel bachusa.
Read aloud from a class register, Maro is short and quick. It carries no fixed imieniny in the Polish calendar. Four letters, and behind them a companion of the wine god.
When Maro celebrates name day
Maro appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 15 April.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Maro
1 in 2504870 women in Poland is named Maro. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13504 among female names.
Maro as a middle name
Maro is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8241st, between Marlin (2) and Marouane (2).
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#8239 Marks2
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#8240 Marlin2
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#8241 Maro2
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#8242 Marouane2
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#8243 Maroš2