Maurício
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mawɾisju/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maurício is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 8th most common given name.
- CLChile≈1 in 275(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 335
- COColombia≈1 in 417
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #583 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 442 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
215,787 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mauricio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice
Sources 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #126 | 215,787 | 1 in 981 | 236K | Mauricio | 236 |
| CO Colombia | #52 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 417 | 106 | Mauricio | 220 |
| AR Argentina | #188 | ≈68,000 est. | ≈1 in 664 | 770 | Mauricio | 171 |
| CL Chile | #63 | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | 114 | Mauricio | 170 |
| US United States | #883 | 40,524 | 1 in 8.2K | 40K | Mauricio | 442 |
| BO Bolivia | #92 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 478 | — | Mauricio | 90 |
| SV El Salvador | #32 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 335 | — | Mauricio | 101 |
| CR Costa Rica | #8 | 10,418 | 1 in 489 | 10K | Mauricio | 134 |
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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maurício do Valleb. 1928BRBrazilian actor
- Mauricio de Sousab. 1935BRBrazilian cartoonist (born 1935)
- Maurício Limab. 1968BROlympic volleyball player of Brazil
- Maurício Rodorigues Alves Dominguesb. 1978BRBrazilian association football player
- Maurício Ruab. 1981BRBrazilian mixed martial artist
- Maurício dos Santos Nascimentob. 1988BRBrazilian footballer
- Mauríciob. 1988BRBrazilian footballer
- Diego Mauríciob. 1991BRBrazilian footballers
- Maurício Antôniob. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Mauríciob. 2001BRParaguayan association football player (born 2001)
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)
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 236K | #219 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
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?
- A machine transcription gives /mawɾisju/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- 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.
- In which country does Maurício have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Maurício?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maur%C3%ADcioThe 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, “Maurício” — the 126th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.