As the Spanish form of Roman Mauritius, Mauricio also goes back to the Latin name Maurus, which means ‘dark-skinned’.
Mauricio is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Mauricio 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, Mauricio ranks 544. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Mauricio. In the entire USA, approximately 20,726 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mauricio. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
As the Spanish form of Roman Mauritius, Mauricio also goes back to the Latin name Maurus, which means ‘dark-skinned’.
In the U.S.,.... Mauricio has been known since the 1960s and had his most popular phase in the 2000s.
You may not know anyone named Mauricio, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 36 states are home to men and boys named Mauricio. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Mauricio living in one state or another. If your name is Mauricio and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Texas, which has the most people named Mauricio relative to the population, you still have to ask 2,224 men and boys their names before you hear Mauricio as an answer just once.
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 eight letters, the name Mauricio is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Mauricio 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 Mauricio, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Igloo
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mauricio
Mauricio
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
U
R
I
C
I
O
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
I
O
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. Mauricio sounds like this:
