Mauricio vs Maurita
American parents have registered 24,231 Mauricios since 1880, against 925 Mauritas. Mauricio is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mauricio Maurita
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 116 years in which either name was published, Mauricio for 96 years and Maurita for 20 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1913–1918 Mauricio ahead
- 1921–1924 Maurita ahead
- 1925–1931 Mauricio ahead
- 1932–1935 Maurita ahead
- 1938–1943 Mauricio ahead
- 1947–1951 Maurita ahead
- 1956–2025 Mauricio ahead
12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Mauricio | Maurita | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 24,231 | 925 |
| Most in one year | 829 | 27 |
| Babies in 2025 | 413 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 23,000 | 560 |
| Median age today | 20 | 63 |
| Peak year | 2008 | 1951 |
| Best rank | 371st boys | 1,885th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 663rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1885 | 1903 |
| Girls / boys | 6 / 24,225 | 925 / 0 |
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 Mauritas alive today are over 63; half the Mauricios are over 20. That is 43 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: Mauricio and Maurita.