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Maude vs Mauricio

American parents have registered 45,887 Maudes since 1880, against 24,231 Mauricios. But in 2025 it was Mauricio that was commoner, 413 babies to 46.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maude against Mauricio, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maude Mauricio

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, Maude for 81 years and Mauricio for 65 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Maude Mauricio
Total US births 45,88724,231
Most in one year 1,406829
Babies in 2025 46413
Estimated living today 2,70023,000
Median age today 7220
Peak year 18882008
Best rank 32nd girls371st boys
Rank in 2025 3,342nd663rd
First recorded 18801885
Girls / boys 45,754 / 1336 / 24,225

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 Maudes alive today are over 72; half the Mauricios are over 20. That is 52 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 Maude Mauricio
France 5,500140
England and Wales 15358

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.

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Related comparisons

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