MaoRi
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: a person of Maori descent
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/maori/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
MaoRi is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 3.4M(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 6.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.4M (inferred from the name graph)
31 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a person of Maori descent
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How MaoRi is read
(measured from records)MaoRi is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses MaoRi in Japanese.
- French21%
a person of Maori descent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English14%
New Zealand people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses MaoRi in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)MaoRi 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 | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | 5 | MaoRi | 42 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | MaoRi | 10 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | MaoRi | 9 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | — | MaoRi | 12 |
31 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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)MaoRi is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Which Relates To
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In Swedish, a (male or female) Maori (member of the indigenous people of New Zealand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, A Maori (member of the indigenous people of New Zealand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a Maori (member of the native people of New Zealand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Laura Tonkeb. 1974DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Maori Laubscherb. 2001CHSwiss association football player
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #50,562 |
| US United States | Baby Names 25,350 (Voight, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 MaoRi mean, and where does it come from?
- a person of Maori descent Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce MaoRi?
- In Spanish /maori/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is MaoRi a male or female name?
- MaoRi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does MaoRi have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 31 people named MaoRi, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is MaoRi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, MaoRi is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.4 million people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name MaoRi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 31 people named MaoRi in 2022, about 1 in 6.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maoriThe 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, “MaoRi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.