Maurice
Maurice is ranked 930th among boys in 2024 (248 births). Its best rank was 94th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- #930up 42 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2480.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19211,743 births
- Best rank
- #94in 1914
- Since 1880
- 138,720people given the name
The story in the numbers
136,109 boys have been named Maurice in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 1,743 births — 0.16% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 580 → 930).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1960, and the 1920s alone account for 12%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,611 girls have also been given it, 1.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Maurice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 961 | |
| 1890s | 1,270 | |
| 1900s | 1,980 | |
| 1910s | 11,429 | |
| 1920s | 16,161 | |
| 1930s | 12,638 | |
| 1940s | 10,477 | |
| 1950s | 12,583 | |
| 1960s | 14,644 | |
| 1970s | 15,234 | |
| 1980s | 15,574 | |
| 1990s | 10,087 | |
| 2000s | 7,178 | |
| 2010s | 4,637 | |
| 2020s | 1,256 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Maurice was the 101st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Maurice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cliftonpeak 1975
- Theronpeak 1966
- Josephpeak 1956
- Elginpeak 1920
- Nickpeak 1960
- Eltonpeak 1920
- Elvinpeak 1927
- Edwinpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.