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Maura vs Mauri

American parents have registered 19,970 Mauras since 1880, against 997 Mauris. Maura is still ahead, with 127 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Maura Mauri

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

Maura has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1903 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Maura had 111 and Mauri had 17.

Side by side

  Maura Mauri
Total US births 19,970997
Most in one year 43023
Babies in 2025 1275
Estimated living today 18,000920
Median age today 3838
Peak year 19641971
Best rank 468th girls2,955th girls
Rank in 2025 1,631st14,942nd
First recorded 19031947
Girls / boys 19,965 / 5838 / 159

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.

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