Mauricio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mauricio (Portuguese), Mauricio (Spanish), derived from the Latin personal name Mauritius (see Morris)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mauɾiθjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mauricio 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)
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 the personal name Mauricio (Portuguese), Mauricio (Spanish), derived from the Latin personal name Mauritius (see Morris).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mauricio 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mauricio 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 Spanish, Mauritius (a country in the Indian Ocean, east of East Africa and Madagascar)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Latín Mauritius, derivado de Maurus ‘moro, mauritano’; luego nombre de San Mauricio.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
De piel morena, moro
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Mauricio Kagelb. 1931ARArgentine-German composer (1931-2008)
- Walden Bellob. 1945PHnot in their usual namePhilippine political economist and socialist politician
- Mauricio Macrib. 1959ARpresident of Argentina from 2015 to 2019
- Mauricio Funesb. 1959SVPresident of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014
- Mauricio Pellegrinob. 1971ARArgentine association football manager (born 1971)
- Mauricio Pochettinob. 1972ARArgentine association football player and coach
- Mauricio Ochmannb. 1977USAmerican actor
- Mauricio Victorinob. 1982UYUruguayan footballer
- Mauricio Pinillab. 1984CLChilean footballer (born 1984)
- Mauricio Islab. 1988CLChilean 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)
Attested in 85 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 236K | #220 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 216K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 215K | #149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,035 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 10K | #49 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 769 | #149 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 413 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 218 | #484 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 114 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 106 | #37 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 88 | #1,035 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Mauricio mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mauricio (Portuguese), Mauricio (Spanish), derived from the Latin personal name Mauritius (see Morris). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mauricio have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 216 thousand people named Mauricio, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mauricio.
- What are other forms of the name Mauricio?
- In the etymology graph, Maurice, Maurizio and Mauri are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mauricio?
- A machine transcription gives /mauɾiθjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Mauricio a male or female name?
- Mauricio 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.
- How common is the name Mauricio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 215,787 people named Mauricio in 2022, about 1 in 981 residents.
- How common is Mauricio compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mauricio is the 126th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mauricio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mauricioThe 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, “Mauricio” — the 126th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.