Morris
Morris was given to 92 boys in 2025, #1,762 among boys’ names; 71,483 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,000 Americans named Morris and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (32% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 47 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Morris by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Morris mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Morris is “a male given name from Old French, a medieval form of French Maurice.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.
/ˈmɔɹɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Morris?
#1,762 among boys’ names, 2025
Morris fell from #1,550 in 2015 to #1,762 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 54.8 to 53.9 per million.
1,690 babies in 1918, the peak
Morris peaked in 1918, when 1,690 babies were given it (1,679 boys, #101 among boys’ names). The 92 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92 | #1,762 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 86 | #1,872 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,645 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 91 | #1,799 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 87 | #1,811 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 99 | #1,630 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 96 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 107 | #1,574 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 105 | #1,566 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,596 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,550 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,463 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 94 | #1,629 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,651 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,726 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 98 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 121 | #1,407 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 109 | #1,502 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,472 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 93 | #1,578 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 80 | #1,683 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,473 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 112 | #1,273 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 94 | #1,400 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 82 | #1,493 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 103 | #1,267 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 112 | #1,166 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,180 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,311 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,296 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,055 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 127 | #982 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 148 | #877 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 148 | #867 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 184 | #750 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 178 | #759 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 193 | #707 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 168 | #729 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 187 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 224 | #593 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 203 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 182 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 184 | #629 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 199 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 220 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 196 | #624 | 0.11 |
| 1979 | 215 | #585 | 0.12 |
| 1978 | 229 | #549 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 233 | #546 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 262 | #492 | 0.17 |
| 1975 | 240 | #520 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 272 | #483 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 269 | #480 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 304 | #452 | 0.19 |
| 1971 | 369 | #419 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 399 | #408 | 0.21 |
| 1969 | 399 | #397 | 0.22 |
| 1968 | 429 | #374 | 0.25 |
| 1967 | 409 | #369 | 0.23 |
| 1966 | 473 | #343 | 0.27 |
| 1965 | 519 | #331 | 0.28 |
| 1964 | 589 | #321 | 0.30 |
| 1963 | 591 | #325 | 0.29 |
| 1962 | 629 | #313 | 0.30 |
| 1961 | 660 | #301 | 0.31 |
| 1960 | 657 | #304 | 0.31 |
| 1959 | 723 | #291 | 0.34 |
| 1958 | 702 | #288 | 0.33 |
| 1957 | 773 | #273 | 0.36 |
| 1956 | 819 | #251 | 0.39 |
| 1955 | 830 | #244 | 0.40 |
| 1954 | 917 | #232 | 0.45 |
| 1953 | 833 | #235 | 0.42 |
| 1952 | 905 | #219 | 0.47 |
| 1951 | 903 | #216 | 0.48 |
| 1950 | 918 | #211 | 0.51 |
| 1949 | 830 | #221 | 0.47 |
| 1948 | 843 | #222 | 0.48 |
| 1947 | 1,002 | #200 | 0.55 |
| 1946 | 916 | #192 | 0.56 |
| 1945 | 775 | #193 | 0.58 |
| 1944 | 828 | #187 | 0.61 |
| 1943 | 914 | #181 | 0.64 |
| 1942 | 909 | #174 | 0.66 |
| 1941 | 876 | #174 | 0.71 |
| 1940 | 912 | #170 | 0.79 |
| 1939 | 927 | #165 | 0.84 |
| 1938 | 839 | #174 | 0.76 |
| 1937 | 856 | #170 | 0.80 |
| 1936 | 847 | #164 | 0.82 |
| 1935 | 908 | #159 | 0.87 |
| 1934 | 932 | #158 | 0.90 |
| 1933 | 868 | #164 | 0.88 |
| 1932 | 940 | #160 | 0.90 |
| 1931 | 990 | #154 | 1.0 |
| 1930 | 1,006 | #152 | 0.92 |
| 1929 | 1,090 | #147 | 1.0 |
| 1928 | 1,157 | #144 | 1.0 |
| 1927 | 1,226 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1926 | 1,306 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1925 | 1,400 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1924 | 1,499 | #120 | 1.3 |
| 1923 | 1,558 | #111 | 1.4 |
| 1922 | 1,630 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1921 | 1,666 | #104 | 1.5 |
| 1920 | 1,609 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1919 | 1,660 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 1918 | 1,679 | #101 | 1.7 |
| 1917 | 1,624 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1916 | 1,618 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1915 | 1,660 | #93 | 2.0 |
| 1914 | 1,365 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1913 | 1,073 | #89 | 2.1 |
| 1912 | 960 | #82 | 2.2 |
| 1911 | 478 | #85 | 2.1 |
| 1910 | 367 | #91 | 1.9 |
| 1909 | 305 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 1908 | 269 | #98 | 1.7 |
| 1907 | 260 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 1906 | 226 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 1905 | 188 | #115 | 1.4 |
| 1904 | 175 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 1903 | 178 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1902 | 150 | #128 | 1.2 |
| 1901 | 146 | #115 | 1.4 |
| 1900 | 162 | #136 | 1.1 |
| 1899 | 116 | #139 | 1.1 |
| 1898 | 164 | #113 | 1.3 |
| 1897 | 132 | #124 | 1.2 |
| 1896 | 136 | #127 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 125 | #132 | 1.1 |
| 1894 | 122 | #133 | 1.1 |
| 1893 | 113 | #135 | 1.0 |
| 1892 | 136 | #126 | 1.1 |
| 1891 | 97 | #138 | 1.0 |
| 1890 | 93 | #152 | 0.84 |
| 1889 | 112 | #126 | 1.0 |
| 1888 | 95 | #160 | 0.79 |
| 1887 | 95 | #136 | 0.94 |
| 1886 | 96 | #144 | 0.87 |
| 1885 | 99 | #136 | 0.92 |
| 1884 | 78 | #179 | 0.68 |
| 1883 | 75 | #164 | 0.72 |
| 1882 | 81 | #167 | 0.71 |
| 1881 | 87 | #145 | 0.86 |
| 1880 | 77 | #172 | 0.70 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Morris a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Morris has been given almost only to boys: 483 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Morris: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Morris, and how old are they?
23,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 32% of the 71,483 Americans ever recorded as Morris. The median Morris alive today is 65 years old; half are between 47 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 24,900 people named Morris (195 women and girls, 24,705 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,954 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3,090 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9,830 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4,570 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,610 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,550 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,270 |
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 Morris born?
The states with the most babies named Morris are New York, Texas and Pennsylvania, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 9,320 | #739 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 5,269 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 3,330 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 3,106 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 2,914 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 2,648 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Alabama | 2,465 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 2,244 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 2,087 | #2,685 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 1,830 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Morris is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Morris is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 2.1 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 Morris 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 71,745 babies since 1880, Morris is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 92 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Morris
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 Morris and names like it
- Compare Morris and MorisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMorris peaked in 1918.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Morris since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Morris: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Morris.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Morris alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.