Moritz

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, US United States, BE Belgium and 8 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●

Attested across 27 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◐

Moritz is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name3.1K records spelled Moritz3 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Möritz, Móritz

• Polish given name2.4K records spelled Moritz2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States

  Also written Moritz'

• Danish given name1.8K records spelled Moritz7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Möritz

• Czech given name736 records spelled Moritz3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Slovakia

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Móritz

• Croatian given name682 records spelled Moritz14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, United States, Bulgaria

  Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

  Also written Moric, Morits, Móritz, Мориц, Morit︠s︡

58 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●

Moritz 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 German, a male given name, equivalent to English Morris or Maurice

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

• In German, patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Mauritius/Mauricius (Moritz), aus lat. Mauricius; Belege und zahlreiche Schreibvarianten im Alpen- und Südwestraum.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

• In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Moritz (lat. Mauritius, ‚der Mohr, aus Mauretanien stammend‘).

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

• In German, patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Moritz/Mauritius; 5767 Träger

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

• In German, ) Moriz: männl. Vom., der aus lat. Mauritius, einer Ableitung von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

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●

AT Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) — 41 years between 1984–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Maurice of Saxonyb. 1521DEnot in their usual nameDuke of Saxony and later Elector of Saxony (1521–1553)
• Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasselb. 1572DEnot in their usual nameLandgrave of Hesse-Kassel, musician (1572-1632)
• Moritz Wagnerb. 1813DEGerman naturalist (1813-1887)
• Georg Ebersb. 1837DEnot in their usual nameGerman egyptologist and novelist (1837–1898)
• Prince Henry of Battenbergb. 1858ITnot in their usual namehusband of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1858-1896)
• Franz Marcb. 1880DEnot in their usual nameGerman artist (1880–1916)
• Moritz Schlickb. 1882DEGerman philosopher (1882-1936)
• Wolfram von Richthofenb. 1895PLnot in their usual nameGerman military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
• Prince Moritz, Landgrave of Hesseb. 1926DEPrince and Landgrave of Hesse (1926-2013)
• Moritz Bleibtreub. 1971DEGerman actor

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 · 240 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Moritz?

We estimate roughly 412 thousand people bear Moritz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Moritz have the most bearers?

We estimate about 337 thousand people bear Moritz in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maurice.

Where is Moritz most common?

Moritz is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 201 people carrying it.

How common is Moritz compared with other names?

In France, Moritz is the 62nd most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Moritz a male or female name?

Moritz 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 Moritz mean?

Recorded meaning: from the personal name Moritz, a variant of Mauritz (see Morris).