Spelling variants of "Maria" include: Mária (Hungarian, Slovakian), María (Greek, Icelandic, Spanish), Máire and Muire (Irish), Marya, Marija (transliterated from Cyrillic), Maria (Polish). Due to a very strong devotion of Irish and Polish Catholics to the Blessed Virgin Mary, a special exception is made for two other forms of her name—Muire and Maryja—no one else may take that name similar to the way the name Jesus is not used in most languages. The English form "Mary" is derived via French "Marie".