Morris
About 71,483 American babies have been named Morris since 1880, most of them around 1918. In 2025 it ranked 1,753rd. About 24,000 Morrises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Morris boys named Morris
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 71,483
- Estimated living today
- 24,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 101st
- Rank in 2025
- 1,753rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 483 / 71,000
How old the living Morrises are
born that year still alive today
Of the 71,483 babies given the name since 1880, about 24,000 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Morriss
- Morris (1923–2001)Belgian comics artist
- Morris Swadesh (1909–1967)American linguist
- Morris West (1916–1999)Australian writer
- Morris Chestnut (born 1969)American actor
- Morris Travers (1872–1961)English chemist
- Morris Halle (1923–2018)Latvian-American linguist
- Morris Kirksey (1895–1981)Athletics and rugby competitor
- Morris Chang (born 1931)American businessperson
People named Morris with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Morris is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Morris is most concentrated in Louisiana (2.5×), Alabama (2.1×), Mississippi (2.1×), New York (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Morris peaked:
Morris elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Morris | 881 | 78th |
| Switzerland boys | Morris | 413 | 291st |
| England and Wales boys | Morris | 389 | 1,157th |
| Italy boys | Morris | 227 | — |
| Scotland boys | Morris | 15 | 297th |
| Ireland boys | Morris | 9 | 321st |
| France boys | Morris | 5 | 4,446th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Morris: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Morris | 406 | 0.033% | 219th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Morris | 5 | 0.001% | 627th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Morris | 2 | 0.003% | 195th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Morris is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.06% of children were given it – 52 of them.
Morris: rank by region
In 2025, Morris was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Morris | 35 | 111 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Morris appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (27th), Province of West Flanders (35th), Province of East Flanders (40th), Province of Limburg (43rd) and Province of Flemish Brabant (77th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Morris among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Morris | 2,504 | 3,121 |
| Finland boys | Morris | 212 | 316 |
| the Netherlands girls | Morris | 21 | 25 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Morris against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.