Popular Names
MARIA Name
| Name: | MARIA |
| Gender: | Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Bulgaria, Corsican, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indian, Italian, Muslim, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scandinavian, Spanish |
| Meaning: | Bitter |
Maria Weston Chapman: "Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one."