Maurice
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maurice is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In English, recorded as From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius. First attested Mauriclus de Edligtona, de Creona c1176 DC (L).
- 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 Maurice 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 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)
From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius. First attested Mauriclus de Edligtona, de Creona c1176 DC (L).
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maurice is read(measured from records)
Maurice is one spelling over 2 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.
- English67%
From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius. First attested Mauriclus de Edligtona, de Creona c1176 DC (L).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French19%
From Latin Mauricius/Maurus, ‘Moor; dark-skinned’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
From Latin Mauritius, 'Moorish, dark-skinned'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Maurice 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maurice is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Latin ‘Moor’; used in Ireland among the Anglo-Normans, assimilating Muirgheas ‘sea choice’.
as a nameIrish first names
Moorish/Latin-Christian: "dark-skinned, Moorish"
as a nameAfrican Names
from the Old French personal name Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Patrice de MacMahonb. 1808FRnot in their usual namethird President of the French Republic (1808–1893)
- Harold Macmillanb. 1894GBnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
- Paul Diracb. 1902GBnot in their usual nameBritish theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
- Maurice Couve de Murvilleb. 1907FR81st Prime Minister of France (1907-1999)
- Maurice Allaisb. 1911FRFrench economist (1911–2010)
- François Mitterrandb. 1916FRnot in their usual name21st President of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995 (1916–1996)
- Michael Caineb. 1933GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor (born 1933)
- Alain Delonb. 1935FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor (1935–2024)
- Roy Maurice Keaneb. 1971IEIrish football manager (born 1971)
- Chris Brownb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1989)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 113 sources across 59 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.8K | #8,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.6K | #8,490 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.5K | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 136 | #11,929 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Maurice mean, and where does it come from?
- From Maurus 'a Moor'; learned form of Mauritius. First attested Mauriclus de Edligtona, de Creona c1176 DC (L). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Maurice a male or female name?
- Maurice 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.
- What are other forms of the name Maurice?
- In the etymology graph, Mauricio, Maurizio and Mauri are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Maurice have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Maurice in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maurice.
- How common is the name Maurice?
- In the United States, the national register counted 71,289 people named Maurice in 2020, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Maurice compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Maurice 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/mauriceThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maurice” — the 136th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.