Màurice
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Màurice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.2K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Màurice itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, BE Belgium, CM Cameroon and 2 more and Moritz in US United States, DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- FrenchMaurice(measured from records)
- Late LatinMauritius(measured from records)
From French Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Màurice counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Maurice | 22 |
| US United States | — | 71,289 | 1 in 4.7K | 319K | Moritz | 386 |
| FR France | #181 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 337K | Maurice | 355 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Moritz | 258 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #229 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Maurice | 18 |
| CM Cameroon | #136 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Maurice | 32 |
| BE Belgium | #147 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 989 | Maurice | 105 |
| GY Guyana | — | 410 | 1 in 1.8K | 773 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Màurice mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- Is Màurice a male or female name?
- Màurice is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Màurice have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Màurice in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maurice.
- How common is the name Màurice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 71,289 people named Màurice in 2020, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Màurice compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Màurice is the 136th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A0uriceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Màurice” — the 136th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.