How Many People Are Named Maurice?
people named Maurice are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 4,302 people in the US has this name
Based on 138,943 babies named Maurice in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,797 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From the Roman name Mauritius, a derivative of MAURUS. Saint Maurice was a 3rd-century Roman soldier from Egypt. He and the other Christians in his legion were supposedly massacred on the orders of emperor Maximian for refusing to worship Roman gods. Thus, he is the patron saint of infantry soldiers.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Maurice in English. Counting Maurice and these spellings together, about 103,003 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Maurice, 1.4% were girls and 98.6% were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Maurice alive today is about 47 years old, and 51% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 33 and 62 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Maurice first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1921, to 1,797 babies. In 2025, 220 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Maurice never made the top 10 boys' names. Its best rank was #94, in 1914, and it was in the top 100 in 5 years between 1911 and 1916. In 2025 it ranked #1,020.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,020 |
| Best rank | #94 (1914) |
| Years in the top 100 | 5 (1911 to 1916) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #110 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Maurice alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Maurice were born in Illinois than in any other state: about 6,814 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Maurice was given 4 times as often in New Hampshire, 3.9 times in District of Columbia and 3.2 times in Maine.
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