Maury
Maury is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 814th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196387 births
- Best rank
- #814in 1963
- Since 1889
- 2,761people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,503 boys have been named Maury in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 87 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 258 girls have also been given it, 9.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Maury | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 92 | |
| 1920s | 151 | |
| 1930s | 151 | |
| 1940s | 289 | |
| 1950s | 370 | |
| 1960s | 623 | |
| 1970s | 214 | |
| 1980s | 131 | |
| 1990s | 177 | |
| 2000s | 167 | |
| 2010s | 87 | |
| 2020s | 39 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Maury was the 814th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1963 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Maury
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stuartpeak 1960
- Delpeak 1958
- Renniepeak 1948
- Salpeak 1958
- Tonypeak 1961
- Deanpeak 1961
- Kennethpeak 1957
- Jaypeak 1960
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.