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Maureen vs Maurizio

American parents have registered 144,604 Maureens since 1880, against 707 Maurizios. Maureen is still ahead, with 32 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maureen against Maurizio, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maureen Maurizio

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

Maureen has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1896 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Maureen had 30 and Maurizio had 17.

Side by side

  Maureen Maurizio
Total US births 144,604707
Most in one year 4,60622
Babies in 2025 3215
Estimated living today 108,000670
Median age today 6624
Peak year 19572007
Best rank 103rd girls4,375th boys
Rank in 2025 4,352nd5,861st
First recorded 18961961
Girls / boys 144,276 / 3280 / 707

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 Maureens alive today are over 66; half the Maurizios are over 24. That is 42 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 Maureen Maurizio
France 8,135335
Belgium 9405
England and Wales 1353

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: Maureen and Maurizio.