Maurice

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maurice is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 201◐
  • MQMartinique1 in 244
  • GPGuadeloupe1 in 369

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈412K ●

across 10 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
369 ●

552K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 201 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

MauriceLatin · French●1.5M records
МошCyrillic · Russian●273 records
มอร์ริสThai · Thai●197 records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moritz in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Moes in NL Netherlands, SE Sweden, FI Finland, Mos in PL Poland, ZA South Africa and Morris in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius. First attested Mauriclus de Edligtona, de Creona c1176 DC (L).

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Maurice is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France#62337,180264K rec.1 in 201337KMaurice342
DE Germany#29976,18777K rec.—1Moritz239
US United States—70,568137K rec.1 in 4.7K319KMaurice369
AT Austria#8041,8012.7K rec.—13KMoritz105
BE Belgium#15112,54413K rec.—989Maurice96
CA Canada#73612,20114K rec.—3Maurice133
GB United Kingdom—6,2736.9K rec.——Maurice117
CH Switzerland#1803,4141.6K rec.—471Moritz80
MQ Martinique#192,65352 rec.—5Maurice15
EG Egypt—2,6282.6K rec.——Maurice57
TH Thailand—2,2902.3K rec.—#482,816Morris64
GP Guadeloupe#451,67922 rec.—5Maurice7

Roughly 337K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 201). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French1.5M46%
  • English1.4M42%
  • Spanish71K2%
  • Swahili47K1%
  • German46K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,478,68946%
English1,370,78842%
Spanish70,6412%
Swahili47,3841%
German45,6821%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Maurice is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name1.6M records spelled Maurice36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mauricé, Máuricè, Maúrice, Mauerice, Maurìce

  • Polish surname9.0K records spelled Maurice56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Morris, Morys, Морис, Moryś, Maurits

90 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Maurice is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Latin ‘Moor’; used in Ireland among the Anglo-Normans, assimilating Muirgheas ‘sea choice’.

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In French, From Latin Mauricius/Maurus, ‘Moor; dark-skinned’

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, From Latin Mauritius, 'Moorish, dark-skinned'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Moorish/Latin-Christian: "dark-skinned, Moorish"

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • from the Old French personal name Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05001K1.5K2K1900195020001.7K · 1921

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Maurice in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188093
188172
1882102
188389
1884115
188596
188697
188788
1888100
1889109
1890102
1891117
1892137
1893149
1894125
1895136
1896127
1897117
1898143
1899117
1900193
1901160
1902187
1903182
1904165
1905202
1906197
1907208
1908241
1909245
1910283
1911397
1912811
1913994
19141,256
19151,440
19161,584
19171,554
19181,636
19191,474
19201,708
19211,743
19221,696
19231,711
19241,714
19251,586
19261,640
19271,493
19281,494
19291,376
19301,550
19311,496
19321,418
19331,310
19341,239
19351,234
19361,154
19371,069
19381,152
19391,016
19401,030
19411,026
19421,027
19431,105
19441,023
1945913
19461,058
19471,140
19481,002
19491,153
19501,197
19511,121
19521,219
19531,229
19541,223
19551,221
19561,326
19571,392
19581,292
19591,364
19601,321
19611,443
19621,482
19631,490
19641,502
19651,417
19661,417
19671,526
19681,475
19691,570
19701,740
19711,698
19721,641
19731,439
19741,375
19751,384
19761,347
19771,440
19781,575
19791,594
19801,556
19811,641
19821,647
19831,684
19841,590
19851,559
19861,511
19871,473
19881,493
19891,421
19901,488
19911,301
19921,164
19931,112
1994932
1995888
1996809
1997827
1998832
1999734
2000795
2001717
2002697
2003757
2004712
2005661
2006761
2007707
2008733
2009638
2010600
2011579
2012531
2013505
2014482
2015435
2016406
2017396
2018377
2019329
2020271
2021287
2022224
2023226
2024248
2025220

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Patrice de MacMahon, b. 1808Harold Macmillan, b. 1894Paul Dirac, b. 1902Maurice Couve de Murville, b. 1907Maurice Allais, b. 1911François Mitterrand, b. 1916Michael Caine, b. 1933Alain Delon, b. 1935Roy Maurice Keane, b. 1971Chris Brown, b. 1989
  • Patrice de MacMahonb. 1808FRnot in their usual namethird President of the French Republic (1808–1893)
  • Harold Macmillanb. 1894GBnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
  • Paul Diracb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameBritish theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
  • Maurice Couve de Murvilleb. 1907FR81st Prime Minister of France (1907-1999)
  • Maurice Allaisb. 1911FRFrench economist (1911–2010)
  • François Mitterrandb. 1916FRnot in their usual name21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
  • Michael Caineb. 1933GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor (born 1933)
  • Alain Delonb. 1935FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1935–2024)
  • Roy Maurice Keaneb. 1971IEIrish football manager (born 1971)
  • Chris Brownb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1989)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 110 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Maurice
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024337K#1,394
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202071K#718
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—12K#324
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.9K#8,430
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.8K#8,307
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.6K#8,490
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19911.5K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020721#718
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024694#536
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—519#2,700
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025410#241
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022402—

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,287 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Maurice?
We estimate roughly 412 thousand people bear Maurice (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Maurice have the most bearers?
We estimate about 337 thousand people bear Maurice in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maurice.
Where is Maurice most common?
Maurice is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 201 people carrying it.
How common is Maurice compared with other names?
In France, Maurice is the 62nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
Is Maurice a male or female name?
Maurice is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Maurice mean?
Recorded meaning: From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maurice” — the 62nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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