Mauricio

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maurice in PA Panama, GT Guatemala and מאוריסיו in IL Israel.

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●

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Mauricio is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name37K records spelled Mauricio3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Bolivia

  Also written Maurício, Mauricío

• Italian given name16K records spelled Mauricio106 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Poland, United States, Laos

  Languages: Italian, Polish, Spanish

  Also written Maurizio, Maurycy, Маурисио, Маурицио

• Indonesian given name3.1K records spelled Mauricio2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Peru, Ecuador, Spain

  Also written Maurício

• Swahili given name2.4K records spelled Mauricio6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Peru

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

  Also written Maurício, Mauriçio

65 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●

Mauricio is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Spanish, Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Latín Mauritius, derivado de Maurus ‘moro, mauritano’; luego nombre de San Mauricio.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• De piel morena, moro

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 119 years between 1905–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mauricio Kagelb. 1931ARArgentine-German composer (1931-2008)
• Walden Bellob. 1945PHnot in their usual namePhilippine political economist and socialist politician
• Mauricio Macrib. 1959ARpresident of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
• Mauricio Funesb. 1959SVPresident of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014
• Mauricio Pellegrinob. 1971ARArgentine association football manager (born 1971)
• Mauricio Pochettinob. 1972ARArgentine association football player and coach
• Mauricio Ochmannb. 1977USAmerican actor
• Mauricio Victorinob. 1982UYUruguayan footballer
• Mauricio Pinillab. 1984CLChilean footballer (born 1984)
• Mauricio Islab. 1988CLChilean association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 935 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mauricio?

We estimate roughly 659 thousand people bear Mauricio (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Mauricio have the most bearers?

Mauricio is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled mauricio.

Where is Mauricio most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mauricio is densest in France — about 1 in 201 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Mauricio compared with other names?

In Argentina, Mauricio is the 183rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Mauricio a male or female name?

Mauricio 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 Mauricio mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mauricio (Portuguese), Mauricio (Spanish), derived from the Latin personal name Mauritius (see Morris).