Maurice

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maurice: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maurice: Recorded since 1952, it reached #46 in 1967, and it stood at #468 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
99times a registrar ranked it
74years from first to last
#46highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#818
1997	#1052
1998	#1055
1999	#1505
2000	#1096
2001	#983
2002	#1077
2003	#1132
2004	#1110
2005	#1095
2006	#1280
2007	#1125
2008	#1596
2009	#1568
2010	#1551
2011	#1522
2012	#1852
2013	#2216
2014	#1327
2015	#1442
2016	#1431
2017	#1627
2018	#1786
2019	#1253
2020	#1431
2021	#1595
2022	#2165
2023	#1799
2024	#2671

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 61 of the 62 years from 1964 to 2025.

In 2024: #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2671 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1952–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1954
First recorded at #92 among boys in New Zealand in 1954 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New Zealand · Boys
Highest recorded1964–2025
Highest recorded position: #46 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1967 (recorded 1964–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #468 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Maurice appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Boys, with 61 ranked years and 2,689 births registered; the earliest is New Zealand · Boys, from 1954.

Maurice across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maurice's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#51 (1964)	#46 (1967)	#468 (2025)	61 of 62	2,689 (1964–2025)	139 (1967)
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#818 (1996)	#2671 (2024)	29 of 29	427 (1996–2024)	21 (2007)
New Zealand · Boys	#92 (1954)	#79 (1955)	#85 (1959)	6 of 6	385 (1954–1959)	71 (1959)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#204 (2002)	#204 (2002)	#307 (2005)	2 of 4	9 (2002–2005)	6 (2002)

Maurice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maurice in Republic of Ireland · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	734	6 of 10	122
1970s	990	10 of 10	99
1980s	559	10 of 10	56
1990s	224	10 of 10	22
2000s	88	10 of 10	9
2010s	61	10 of 10	6
2020s	33	5 of 10	7

Across Republic of Ireland · Boys, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 122 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1981 and 1982, when recorded births fell by 26, from 85 to 59.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Maurice appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #46 in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Maurice's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2165	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1431	17	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1253	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1627	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1442	17	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1852	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1596	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1280	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1095	19	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1110	17	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#983	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1055	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1052	13	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	56	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New Zealand	male	#85	71	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	male	#85	67	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	male	#88	67	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	male	#82	61	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	male	#79	67	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	male	#92	52	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	male	#204	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#660	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#498	6	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#402	9	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#412	8	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#468	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#479	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#457	7	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#455	7	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#422	8	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	7	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#346	11	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#374	8	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#295	10	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	10	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#263	10	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#451	3	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#209	12	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	male	#214	10	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	male	#197	12	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#168	15	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	male	#158	20	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#160	19	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	male	#150	22	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	male	#163	16	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#138	27	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	male	#153	23	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#127	35	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	male	#123	35	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	male	#143	25	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#106	45	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#115	40	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#110	40	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#100	54	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	male	#97	55	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#83	74	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#101	59	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	male	#81	85	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#84	82	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#94	71	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#78	90	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#82	86	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#83	84	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	male	#73	108	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#68	111	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#68	119	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#70	112	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	male	#76	96	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#63	113	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#56	119	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	male	#54	114	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#46	139	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	male	#54	114	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	male	#50	128	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#51	120	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1952 and 2025, ranked in 69 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #46, first reached in 1967.

It held a top-100 place in 28 years, 18 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 139 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1967.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 50 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maura · #136, 58y
Maureen · #31, 70y
Mauricio · #2418, 12y
Maverick · #97, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Terence · #48, 74y
Desmond · #43, 68y
Terry · #49, 72y
Brenda · #41, 71y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Kaia · #46, 54y
Ronnie · #46, 60y
Douglas · #47, 70y
Isabel · #45, 68y

Maurice was ranked #46 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1967. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maurice and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maurice without appearing here.

Maurice moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2216 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1327 and #4632.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #5119.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #2501.
Barry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2216 and #1920 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1327 and #2079.

Moved ahead of Maurice

Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #967.
Aksel Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #1688 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #1224.
Henrik Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1595 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2165 and #1314.
Andrea Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #2007 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2671 and #1859.

Moved the opposite way to Maurice

Alexander Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 while Alexander went from #116 to #55.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 while Benjamin went from #139 to #83.
Conor Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 while Conor went from #56 to #16.
Liam Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 while Liam went from #54 to #7.

Moved the same way as Maurice

Adrian Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 and Adrian from #65 to #348.
Alfred Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 and Alfred from #134 to #286.
Denis Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 and Denis from #21 to #232.
Edward Compare
Between 1964 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Maurice went from #51 to #468 and Edward from #18 to #125.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #46 in Republic of Ireland in 1967. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maurice

Maurice at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maurice across 4 official records

Maurice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Maurice appears in

Popularity data

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Maurice and the names beside it

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Maurice at a glance

Maurice across 4 official records

Maurice by decade in Republic of Ireland · Boys

Maurice appears in

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Maurice

Maurice and the names beside it

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