Girls' name · since 1979
Maurisha
Maurisha has 227 recorded births since 1979 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1992 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 227
- total births
- 1979–2006
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
Maurisha is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 227 have been recorded since 1979.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maurisha has been recorded 227 times among girls since 1979, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 1990s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 2006.
- 227 total births
- 1979–2006 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 67% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maurisha's 227 recorded births place it above 74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maurisha's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Maurisha splits its recorded history at 1995: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1980 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1992 peak of 22 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Maurisha popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–2006
- Peak year (1992)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Maurisha by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Maurisha's strongest decade.
153 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Maurisha births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s 26
1980s
26 births
- 1990s
1990s
153 births
- 2000s 42
2000s
42 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 153 births (67% of all-time use).
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- Maurisha's decade-level peak was the 1990s (153 total births); usage has since declined to 42 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–2006 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maurisha: Baby Name Since 1979 - 227 Births, Peak 1992." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maurisha. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maurisha draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.