Marija is a feminine given name, a variation of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Depending on phonological rules concerning consecutive vowels or the use of the palatal approximant, "Mary" in these languages is Marija if consecutive vowels are disallowed and otherwise Maria.

Marija is the most common female name in Croatia. The name Marija was the most common feminine given name until 1969.

The male equivalents are Marijan, Marijo and Mario.

Notable people with the name include:

• Marija Atanassowa (1926–2000), Bulgarian pilot

• Marija Bankauskaitė (1933–1992), Lithuanian ceramics artist

• Marija Ćirović, Montenegrin model

• Marija Dūdienė (1927–2012), Lithuanian painter

• Marija Essen (1872–1956), Russian revolutionary and writer

• Marija Gluvakov (born 1973), Serbian pianist

• Marija D. Ilić (born 1951), Serbian-American electrical engineer

• Marija Karan (born 1982), Serbian actress

• Marija Kavtaradzė (born 1991), Lithuanian film director and screenwriter

• Marija Kessler (1860–1939), Slovenian salonist

• Marija Klobčar, Slovenian ethnologist

• Marija Lastauskienė (1872–1957), Lithuanian writer

• Marija Leiko (1887–1938), Latvian actress

• Marija Makarovič (born 1930), Slovene ethnologist

• Marija Mirković (born 1990), Serbian-Australian tennis player

• Marija Nikolova, Macedonian singer

• Marija Obrenović (c. 1831–1876), Moldavian and Romanian aristocrat

• Marija Omaljev-Grbić (born 1982), Croatian actress

• Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), Lithuanian writer under the pen name Šatrijos Ragana

• Marija Petković (1892–1966), Croatian nun

• Marija Razgutė (born 1985), Lithuanian film producer

• Marija Šestak (born 1979), Slovenian triple jumper

• Marija Šestić (born 1987), Bosnian Serb singer

• Marija Lucija Stupica (1950–2002), Slovenian writer

• Marija Ugrica (born 1995), Serbian singer

• Marija Vojskovič (1915–1997), Slovene writer

• Marija Vučenović (born 1993), Serbian javelin thrower

• Marija Vuković (born 1992), Montenegrin athlete

• Princess Marija of Yugoslavia, the only child of Prince Nikolas of Yugoslavia and Ljiljana Licanin

• Marija Zerova (1902–1994), Ukrainian mycologist

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