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Maud vs Mauri

American parents have registered 13,190 Mauds since 1880, against 997 Mauris. But in 2025 it was Mauri that was commoner, 5 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maud against Mauri, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maud Mauri

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Maud for 74 years and Mauri for 71 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Maud Mauri
Total US births 13,190997
Most in one year 48323
Babies in 2025 under 55
Estimated living today 520920
Median age today 7438
Peak year 18861971
Best rank 74th girls2,955th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked14,942nd
First recorded 18801947
Girls / boys 13,159 / 31838 / 159

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mauds alive today are over 74; half the Mauris are over 38. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maud and Mauri.