As the French form of Roman Mauritius, Maurice also goes back to the Latin name Maurus, which means ‘dark-skinned’. The English version of Maurice is Morris or Moris.
Maurice is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Maurice isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Maurice ranks 623. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Maurice. In the entire USA, approximately 126,687 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Maurice. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Maurice is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Maurice. This means that several boys named Maurice have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Maurice has reached its best rank of #91 multiple times, most recently in 1914. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Maurice one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maurice was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Maurice is one of them. However, Maurice is not equally widespread in all states, but people in New Hampshire seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,691 men called Maurice who live here are 0,316% of all male residents and push their name up to #79 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in New Hampshire. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 126,687 people with the name Maurice. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Maurice on position 244 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With seven letters, the name Maurice has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Maurice and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maurice, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maurice
Maurice
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
U
R
I
C
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
U
R
I
C
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maurice sounds like this:
