Our Lady's Name

[Dolling]

Of course we usually refer to Our Lady’s name as MARY.

I read recently that in her time she was probably called Mariam.
Has anyone else heard this?

I know names do translate in other languages, so of course she is not Mary in every language, just as St John changes - Giovanni, Jean, Ian etc.

But do we know how she would normally have heard her name said?

 

[Nowhere_Man]

It would probably have been “Maryam”, which is the Judeo-Aramaic version of Miriam, or Mary in English.

From The Catholic Encyclopedia Article on The Blessed Virgin Mary’s Name:
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“…In the New Testament the name of the Virgin Mary is always Mariam, excepting in the Vatican Codex and the Codex Bezae followed by a few critics who read Maria in Luke 2:19. Possibly the Evangelists kept the archaic form of the name for the Blessed Virgin, so as to distinguish her from the other women who bore the same name. The Vulgate renders the name by Maria, both in the Old Testament and the New; Josephus (Ant. Jud., II, ix, 4) changes the name to Mariamme…”*