Maura
About 19,970 American babies have been named Maura since 1903, most of them around 1964. In 2025 it ranked 1,631st. About 18,000 Mauras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maura boys named Maura
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 19,970
- Estimated living today
- 18,000
- Median age today
- 38
- Peak year
- 1964
- Best rank
- 468th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,631st
- First recorded
- 1903
- Girls / boys
- 19,965 / 5
How old the living Mauras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 19,970 babies given the name since 1903, about 18,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 2,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish, Scottish Gaelic
Either from Irish Máire and Scottish Gaelic Màiri, or from Italian Maura. When borrowed from Irish.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mauras
- Maura Tierney (born 1965)American actress
- Maura Healey (born 1971)73rd governor of Massachusetts
- Maura Tombelli (born 1952)Italian astronomer
- Maura West (born 1972)American actress
People named Maura with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maura is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maura is most concentrated in Massachusetts (6.2×), Connecticut (4.0×), Pennsylvania (3.0×), New York (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1964
The most popular girls’ names the year Maura peaked:
Maura elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Maura | 1,053 | 136th |
| Italy girls | Maura | 710 | — |
| Belgium girls | Maura | 228 | 518th |
| England and Wales girls | Maura | 60 | 3,318th |
| Scotland girls | Maura | 57 | 474th |
| France girls | Maura | 40 | 6,609th |
| Poland girls | Maura | 40 birth registrations | 367th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Maura | 14 | 324th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maura: rank by region
In 2025, Maura was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Maura | 836 | 5 |
In 2022, Maura was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Maura | 189 | 3 |
In 2019, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Maura appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (131st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Maura among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Maura | 82 | 108 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Maura lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 888 women called Maura were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Maura | 25 | 0.313 | 361 |
| Valladolid | Maura | 58 | 0.214 | 429 |
| Burgos | Maura | 26 | 0.143 | 594 |
| Zamora | Maura | 9 | 0.108 | 672 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Maura | 58 | 0.105 | 903 |
| Araba/Álava | Maura | 16 | 0.092 | 905 |
Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Maura against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.