Maureen
Maureen was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,423 among girls’ names; 144,604 Americans have been recorded with it since 1896 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 106,000 Americans named Maureen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 59 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maureen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maureen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maureen is “a female given name from Irish.”
Anglicized from Irish Máirín, diminutive of Máire, an Irish equivalent of Mary. By surface analysis, Maura + -een.
/ˈmɔːɹiːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maureen?
#4,423 among girls’ names, 2025
Maureen fell from #3,638 in 2015 to #4,423 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.1 to 19.9 per million.
4,606 babies in 1957, the peak
Maureen peaked in 1957, when 4,606 babies were given it (4,596 girls, #103 among girls’ names). The 32 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,423 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,983 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,098 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,688 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,912 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,509 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 49 | #3,257 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,717 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,465 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (127)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #3,638 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,066 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,615 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,072 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,825 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,606 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,876 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,743 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,037 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,830 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 88 | #2,113 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 105 | #1,816 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,540 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 123 | #1,542 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 133 | #1,425 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,226 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 173 | #1,133 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 199 | #1,005 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 212 | #941 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 234 | #856 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 257 | #776 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 305 | #689 | 0.17 |
| 1993 | 322 | #680 | 0.18 |
| 1992 | 385 | #593 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 440 | #530 | 0.23 |
| 1990 | 491 | #496 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 487 | #485 | 0.26 |
| 1988 | 595 | #405 | 0.33 |
| 1987 | 554 | #408 | 0.32 |
| 1986 | 628 | #374 | 0.37 |
| 1985 | 672 | #350 | 0.39 |
| 1984 | 721 | #326 | 0.43 |
| 1983 | 841 | #280 | 0.50 |
| 1982 | 914 | #270 | 0.54 |
| 1981 | 829 | #293 | 0.50 |
| 1980 | 881 | #280 | 0.53 |
| 1979 | 882 | #276 | 0.55 |
| 1978 | 774 | #299 | 0.51 |
| 1977 | 841 | #287 | 0.55 |
| 1976 | 809 | #284 | 0.55 |
| 1975 | 877 | #277 | 0.60 |
| 1974 | 1,011 | #253 | 0.69 |
| 1973 | 1,032 | #247 | 0.71 |
| 1972 | 1,172 | #237 | 0.77 |
| 1971 | 1,471 | #203 | 0.88 |
| 1970 | 1,789 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 2,012 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 2,175 | #148 | 1.3 |
| 1967 | 2,702 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1966 | 3,015 | #119 | 1.8 |
| 1965 | 3,481 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 1964 | 3,836 | #107 | 2.0 |
| 1963 | 4,011 | #108 | 2.1 |
| 1962 | 4,128 | #108 | 2.1 |
| 1961 | 4,569 | #104 | 2.3 |
| 1960 | 4,520 | #106 | 2.2 |
| 1959 | 4,448 | #106 | 2.2 |
| 1958 | 4,457 | #110 | 2.2 |
| 1957 | 4,596 | #103 | 2.2 |
| 1956 | 4,504 | #102 | 2.2 |
| 1955 | 4,339 | #100 | 2.2 |
| 1954 | 4,370 | #97 | 2.3 |
| 1953 | 4,112 | #92 | 2.2 |
| 1952 | 4,039 | #94 | 2.2 |
| 1951 | 3,878 | #93 | 2.2 |
| 1950 | 4,070 | #89 | 2.4 |
| 1949 | 3,923 | #89 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 4,077 | #88 | 2.4 |
| 1947 | 4,085 | #98 | 2.3 |
| 1946 | 3,684 | #95 | 2.3 |
| 1945 | 2,674 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 1944 | 2,536 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 1943 | 2,760 | #105 | 2.0 |
| 1942 | 2,721 | #102 | 2.0 |
| 1941 | 1,992 | #129 | 1.6 |
| 1940 | 1,810 | #135 | 1.6 |
| 1939 | 1,586 | #146 | 1.4 |
| 1938 | 1,611 | #144 | 1.5 |
| 1937 | 1,395 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1936 | 1,329 | #155 | 1.3 |
| 1935 | 1,230 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,086 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 1933 | 1,063 | #170 | 1.1 |
| 1932 | 887 | #204 | 0.83 |
| 1931 | 741 | #225 | 0.70 |
| 1930 | 532 | #281 | 0.47 |
| 1929 | 309 | #382 | 0.28 |
| 1928 | 284 | #399 | 0.25 |
| 1927 | 243 | #440 | 0.20 |
| 1926 | 225 | #456 | 0.19 |
| 1925 | 157 | #574 | 0.13 |
| 1924 | 194 | #513 | 0.16 |
| 1923 | 183 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1922 | 132 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1921 | 147 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1920 | 107 | #704 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 95 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 113 | #676 | 0.10 |
| 1917 | 93 | #727 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 93 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 114 | #613 | 0.12 |
| 1914 | 60 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 55 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 40 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 26 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,252 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 18 | #915 | 0.06 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,206 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,222 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,525 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,954 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,865 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maureen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maureen has been given almost only to girls: 328 boys in 127 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maureen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maureen, and how old are they?
106,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 144,604 Americans ever recorded as Maureen. The median Maureen alive today is 67 years old; half are between 59 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 125,608 people named Maureen (125,509 women and girls, 99 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116,604 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10,300 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 62,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 22,900 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,420 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,760 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 508 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maureen born?
The states with the most babies named Maureen are New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 31,744 | #2,297 | 2.5× |
| Massachusetts | 15,411 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 13,229 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 10,476 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 10,093 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 9,829 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6,334 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 5,677 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Connecticut | 4,462 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Wisconsin | 3,148 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Maureen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maureen is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maureen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 158,361 babies since 1880, Maureen is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 720 babies (4.4%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maureen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maureen and names like it
- Compare Maureen and MarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMaureen peaked in 1957.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maureen since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Maureen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Maureen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Maureen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.