Maurice
Maurice was given to 220 boys in 2025, #1,020 among boys’ names; 138,943 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 78,500 Americans named Maurice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (57% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 34 and 62.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maurice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maurice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maurice is “a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Morris.” Its etymology gives the sense “Moor; dark, swarthy” (Maurus).
From Middle English Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr.
/məˈɹis/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maurice?
#1,020 among boys’ names, 2025
Maurice fell from #617 in 2015 to #1,020 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.23 to 0.13 per 1,000.
1,797 babies in 1921, the peak
Maurice peaked in 1921, when 1,797 babies were given it (1,743 boys, #101 among boys’ names). The 220 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 220 | #1,020 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 248 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 226 | #973 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 224 | #996 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 287 | #830 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 271 | #844 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 329 | #732 | 0.18 |
| 2018 | 377 | #670 | 0.21 |
| 2017 | 396 | #651 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 406 | #651 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 435 | #617 | 0.23 |
| 2014 | 482 | #580 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 505 | #526 | 0.27 |
| 2012 | 531 | #502 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 579 | #464 | 0.30 |
| 2010 | 600 | #448 | 0.31 |
| 2009 | 638 | #439 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 733 | #402 | 0.36 |
| 2007 | 707 | #415 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 761 | #394 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 661 | #411 | 0.33 |
| 2004 | 712 | #384 | 0.36 |
| 2003 | 757 | #358 | 0.38 |
| 2002 | 697 | #377 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 717 | #372 | 0.37 |
| 2000 | 795 | #345 | 0.40 |
| 1999 | 734 | #356 | 0.38 |
| 1998 | 832 | #327 | 0.44 |
| 1997 | 827 | #320 | 0.44 |
| 1996 | 809 | #325 | 0.43 |
| 1995 | 888 | #300 | 0.47 |
| 1994 | 932 | #294 | 0.48 |
| 1993 | 1,112 | #258 | 0.57 |
| 1992 | 1,164 | #248 | 0.58 |
| 1991 | 1,301 | #228 | 0.64 |
| 1990 | 1,488 | #206 | 0.72 |
| 1989 | 1,421 | #204 | 0.71 |
| 1988 | 1,493 | #186 | 0.78 |
| 1987 | 1,473 | #187 | 0.79 |
| 1986 | 1,511 | #176 | 0.82 |
| 1985 | 1,559 | #173 | 0.84 |
| 1984 | 1,590 | #168 | 0.88 |
| 1983 | 1,684 | #162 | 0.94 |
| 1982 | 1,647 | #165 | 0.91 |
| 1981 | 1,641 | #163 | 0.92 |
| 1980 | 1,556 | #162 | 0.87 |
| 1979 | 1,594 | #160 | 0.93 |
| 1978 | 1,575 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1977 | 1,440 | #166 | 0.88 |
| 1976 | 1,347 | #174 | 0.86 |
| 1975 | 1,384 | #169 | 0.89 |
| 1974 | 1,375 | #173 | 0.87 |
| 1973 | 1,439 | #165 | 0.92 |
| 1972 | 1,641 | #160 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 1,698 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 1,740 | #165 | 0.94 |
| 1969 | 1,570 | #178 | 0.88 |
| 1968 | 1,475 | #179 | 0.85 |
| 1967 | 1,526 | #173 | 0.88 |
| 1966 | 1,417 | #180 | 0.79 |
| 1965 | 1,417 | #181 | 0.76 |
| 1964 | 1,502 | #187 | 0.75 |
| 1963 | 1,490 | #199 | 0.73 |
| 1962 | 1,482 | #203 | 0.72 |
| 1961 | 1,443 | #202 | 0.68 |
| 1960 | 1,321 | #212 | 0.62 |
| 1959 | 1,364 | #208 | 0.64 |
| 1958 | 1,292 | #209 | 0.61 |
| 1957 | 1,392 | #196 | 0.65 |
| 1956 | 1,326 | #202 | 0.63 |
| 1955 | 1,221 | #206 | 0.59 |
| 1954 | 1,223 | #205 | 0.60 |
| 1953 | 1,229 | #198 | 0.62 |
| 1952 | 1,219 | #191 | 0.63 |
| 1951 | 1,121 | #195 | 0.60 |
| 1950 | 1,197 | #185 | 0.67 |
| 1949 | 1,153 | #183 | 0.65 |
| 1948 | 1,002 | #198 | 0.57 |
| 1947 | 1,140 | #181 | 0.62 |
| 1946 | 1,058 | #176 | 0.65 |
| 1945 | 913 | #177 | 0.68 |
| 1944 | 1,023 | #168 | 0.75 |
| 1943 | 1,105 | #165 | 0.77 |
| 1942 | 1,027 | #166 | 0.74 |
| 1941 | 1,026 | #163 | 0.84 |
| 1940 | 1,030 | #161 | 0.89 |
| 1939 | 1,016 | #157 | 0.92 |
| 1938 | 1,152 | #143 | 1.0 |
| 1937 | 1,069 | #144 | 1.0 |
| 1936 | 1,154 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1935 | 1,234 | #130 | 1.2 |
| 1934 | 1,239 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1933 | 1,310 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1932 | 1,418 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 1931 | 1,496 | #117 | 1.4 |
| 1930 | 1,550 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1929 | 1,376 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 1928 | 1,494 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1927 | 1,493 | #122 | 1.3 |
| 1926 | 1,640 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1925 | 1,586 | #111 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 1,714 | #102 | 1.5 |
| 1923 | 1,711 | #101 | 1.6 |
| 1922 | 1,696 | #103 | 1.6 |
| 1921 | 1,743 | #101 | 1.6 |
| 1920 | 1,708 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 1919 | 1,474 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1918 | 1,636 | #103 | 1.6 |
| 1917 | 1,554 | #101 | 1.7 |
| 1916 | 1,584 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 1915 | 1,440 | #101 | 1.7 |
| 1914 | 1,256 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 1913 | 994 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1912 | 811 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1911 | 397 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1910 | 283 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1909 | 245 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 1908 | 241 | #106 | 1.6 |
| 1907 | 208 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 1906 | 197 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1905 | 202 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1904 | 165 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 1903 | 182 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1902 | 187 | #102 | 1.5 |
| 1901 | 160 | #106 | 1.5 |
| 1900 | 193 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1899 | 117 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1898 | 143 | #129 | 1.2 |
| 1897 | 117 | #139 | 1.0 |
| 1896 | 127 | #133 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 136 | #123 | 1.2 |
| 1894 | 125 | #128 | 1.1 |
| 1893 | 149 | #112 | 1.3 |
| 1892 | 137 | #124 | 1.1 |
| 1891 | 117 | #119 | 1.2 |
| 1890 | 102 | #140 | 0.92 |
| 1889 | 109 | #131 | 1.0 |
| 1888 | 100 | #153 | 0.83 |
| 1887 | 88 | #145 | 0.87 |
| 1886 | 97 | #141 | 0.88 |
| 1885 | 96 | #143 | 0.89 |
| 1884 | 115 | #126 | 1.0 |
| 1883 | 89 | #145 | 0.85 |
| 1882 | 102 | #139 | 0.90 |
| 1881 | 72 | #170 | 0.71 |
| 1880 | 93 | #146 | 0.84 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maurice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 138,943 Americans recorded as Maurice, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 220 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maurice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maurice, and how old are they?
78,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 57% of the 138,943 Americans ever recorded as Maurice. The median Maurice alive today is 48 years old; half are between 34 and 62.
The 2020 Census counted 71,289 people named Maurice (721 women and girls, 70,568 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84,149 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3,910 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16,500 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 21,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20,800 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,370 |
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 Maurice born?
The states with the most babies named Maurice are New York, Illinois and California, with 23% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 10,839 | #974 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 10,738 | #1,233 | 1.5× |
| California | 7,813 | #1,072 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 6,999 | #775 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 6,061 | #704 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 5,352 | #1,200 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5,300 | #911 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 4,714 | #743 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 4,309 | #992 | 1.1× |
| Maryland | 3,985 | #672 | 1.9× |
Where Maurice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maurice is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1910 it was given 3.2 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 boys’ 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 Maurice 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 165,302 babies since 1880, Maurice is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 220 of their 633 babies (35%), 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 Maurice
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 Maurice and names like it
- Compare Maurice and MauricioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sMaurice peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maurice since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Maurice: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Maurice.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Maurice alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.