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Maud vs Mauro

American parents have registered 13,190 Mauds since 1880, against 6,644 Mauros. But in 2025 it was Mauro that was commoner, 119 babies to fewer than five.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maud against Mauro, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maud Mauro

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Mauro for 85 years and Maud for 61 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Maud Mauro
Total US births 13,1906,644
Most in one year 483161
Babies in 2025 under 5119
Estimated living today 5205,600
Median age today 7425
Peak year 18862006
Best rank 74th girls1,091st boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,486th
First recorded 18801913
Girls / boys 13,159 / 310 / 6,644

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mauds alive today are over 74; half the Mauros are over 25. That is 49 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Maud Mauro
France 37,940505
Belgium 2,2713,212
England and Wales 20433

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Maud and Mauro.