Maurício

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SRCEI, 2019

/mawˈɾi.si.o/(recorded in a dictionary) Portuguese · from Wiktionary

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Maurício is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 215,787 people, counted by IBGE in 2022. In Costa Rica it is the 8th most common given name. Maurício is also written מאוריסיו in Hebrew and Μαουρισιο in Greek.

  • CLChile≈1 in 240(inferred from the name graph)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 300
  • COColombia≈1 in 340

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 Maurício 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

215,787 people, 2022

#583 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
442 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 240 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Maurício in other scripts: Hebrew and Greek

(measured from records)
MaurícioLatin(measured from records)
מאוריסיוMaurício in Hebrew(measured from records)
ΜαουρισιοMaurício in Greek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mauricio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, MX Mexico and 5 more.

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.

How to pronounce Maurício

  • Portuguese:/mawˈɾi.si.o/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Maurício 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.

Where Maurício is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#126215,7871 in 981236KMauricio236
MX Mexico#157≈160,000 est.≈1 in 817587Mauricio250
CO Colombia#52≈160,000 est.≈1 in 341106Mauricio220
CL Chile#63≈82,000 est.≈1 in 240114Mauricio170
AR Argentina#188≈69,000 est.≈1 in 665770Mauricio171
BO Bolivia#92≈26,000 est.≈1 in 476—Mauricio90
SV El Salvador#32≈21,000 est.≈1 in 297—Mauricio101
CR Costa Rica#810,4181 in 48910KMauricio134

215,787 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Maurício is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mauricío, Mauricio

  • Italian given name86 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Laos, Switzerland

    Languages: Italian, Lao, Spanish

    Also written Maurizio, Mauricio, Маурисио, Маурицио, เมาริซิโอ

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia

    Also written Mauricio

  • Swahili given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Mauricio, Mauriçio

  • a separate given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, Bolivia

    Also written Mauricio, M̶ä̶ü̶r̶ï̶c̶ï̶ö̶, M̶a̶u̶r̶i̶c̶i̶o̶, ̯̭̖͕͟m̶̲̲̱̥̺̲͡ͅa͖̝u҉̻̘̫̥̘̭͞r͕̱̗̭͜i̛͓̥͈̥͚̤͡ͅc͓̗͍̣i̜̤͔o҉̹̳̠̟͇͓̩, ̶m̶a̶u̶r̶i̶c̶i̶o̶

  • Croatian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Spain, Ecuador

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Mauricio, Маурицио, Маурисио, Maurisio

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
198019902000Maurício Rua, b. 1981Diego Maurício, b. 1991Maurício Antônio, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
InformalOlá Maurício,Hi Maurício, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maurício mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Maurício?
In the etymology graph, Maurice, Maurizio and Mauri are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Maurício?
In Portuguese /mawˈɾi.si.o/ (Wiktionary).
Is Maurício a male or female name?
Maurício 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.
Which countries have the most people named Maurício?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 216 thousand people named Maurício, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mauricio. After it come Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Maurício?
In Brazil, the national register counted 215,787 people named Maurício in 2022, about 1 in 981 residents.
How common is Maurício compared with other names?
In Brazil, Maurício is the 126th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Maurício” — ranked 149th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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