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Maud vs Maurkice

American parents have registered 13,190 Mauds since 1880, against 13 Maurkices. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maud Maurkice

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 108 years in which either name was published, Maud for 107 years and Maurkice for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Maud Maurkice
Total US births 13,19013
Most in one year 48313
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 52013
Median age today 7414
Peak year 18862011
Best rank 74th girls6,256th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18802011
Girls / boys 13,159 / 310 / 13

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 Maurkices are over 14. That is 60 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 Maurkice.