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Mauricio vs Maurkice

American parents have registered 24,231 Mauricios since 1880, against 13 Maurkices. Mauricio is still ahead, with 413 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mauricio against Maurkice, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mauricio Maurkice

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

Mauricio has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Mauricio had 610 and Maurkice had 13.

Side by side

  Mauricio Maurkice
Total US births 24,23113
Most in one year 82913
Babies in 2025 413under 5
Estimated living today 23,00013
Median age today 2014
Peak year 20082011
Best rank 371st boys6,256th boys
Rank in 2025 663rdunranked
First recorded 18852011
Girls / boys 6 / 24,2250 / 13

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 Mauricios alive today are over 20; half the Maurkices are over 14. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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