Maude vs Mauri

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Maude 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 146 years in which either name was published, Maude for 113 years and Mauri for 33 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

• 1880–1970 Maude ahead
• 1971 Mauri ahead
• 1972–1976 Maude ahead
• 1977–1978 Mauri ahead
• 1979 Maude ahead
• 1980–1984 Mauri ahead
• 1985 Maude ahead
• 1986–2002 Mauri ahead
• 2003–2004 Maude ahead
• 2005–2012 Mauri ahead
• 2013–2025 Maude ahead

Side by side

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 Maudes alive today are over 72; half the Mauris are over 38. That is 34 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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