Mary is a popular name worldwide, and the most popular name for a female in the United States. During the 1990 US Census, approximately 2.629% of females counted had the first name Mary.

There have been a number of important women who have gone by the name Mary:

Biblical Marys:

• Mary, the mother of Jesus
• Mary Magdalene
• Mary, the wife of Cleopas
• Mary, sister of Lazarus
• Mary, mother of John Mark
• Mary (biblical, Romans 16:6)
• Miriam

Historical Marys:

• various Queen Marys
• Mary I of England
• Mary II of England
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Mary I of Portugal
• Mary II of Portugal
• Mary of Hungary
• Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
• Typhoid Mary

See also:

• Mary programming language
• Mary, a city in Turkmenistan

Mary is Miriam in the Hebrew language.

In Japanese, Mari means, "eternal truth".

Quotation

In 1905, George M. Cohan wrote a song called "Mary" [1] which ended:

For it is Mary, Mary,

Plain as any name can be

But with propriety,

Society will say Marie

But it was Mary, Mary,

Long before the fashions came

And there is something

There that sounds so fair,

It's a grand old name

Gay slang

Mary is slang in some gay communities for a male homosexual.