Variants Marie German Mari Marie Swedish Mari Marie Norwegian Mari Marie Danish Marjo Marie Marja Dutch Mariah Maleah Marie Mary English Maaria Marja Marje Marjo Finnish Maarja Mari Marje Marju Estonian Miren Basque Mariya Marya Russian Mariya Bulgarian Mariya Ukrainian Mariam Biblical Greek.

Maria name variants. Maria Marie Marja Marjo Mirjam. The WHO hopes that this change will help combat the stigma and discrimination associated with geography-based names. The names Maaria Maarja Marietta Mariya Marja Marjo are all forms of Maria.

A Russian variant for Maria. The B16172 joined the category after the World Health Organization classified it as a variant of global concern. For example the coronavirus variant first found in the UK.

Both variants reflect Syro-Aramaic Maryam itself a variant of the Hebrew name מרים or Miryam. Under the new system the variants of concern take on the following names. The hitherto so-called British variant B117 becomes Alpha.

TV journalist Maria Shriver. There are now four COVID-19 variants of concern. Here are some variants of Maria to choose from.

Experts say this name change is good and will encourage people to refrain from associating a virus or pathogen with the place it was first. The World Health Organization has renamed coronavirus variants using the Greek alphabet. For instance WHO calls the UK variant B117 Alpha and the South African variant B1351 is Beta No country should be stigmatised for detecting and reporting variants Maria Van Kerkhove WHOs technical lead for COVID-19 response wrote in a Twitter post.

The B1351 first discovered in South Africa becomes Beta. The Irish variant for Maria. Marie the French variant was the preferred form of Mary in England until about the time of the Reformation.