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Maureen vs Mauri

American parents have registered 144,604 Maureens since 1880, against 997 Mauris. Maureen is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maureen against Mauri, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maureen 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

Maureen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1896 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Maureen had 27 and Mauri had 17.

Side by side

  Maureen Mauri
Total US births 144,604997
Most in one year 4,60623
Babies in 2025 325
Estimated living today 108,000920
Median age today 6638
Peak year 19571971
Best rank 103rd girls2,955th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd14,942nd
First recorded 18961947
Girls / boys 144,276 / 328838 / 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 Maureens alive today are over 66; half the Mauris are over 38. That is 28 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: Maureen and Mauri.