Maurice

Maurice is the 8,307th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,819 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 78,300.

By the numbers

People: 3,819
Rank: 8,307th
How common: 1 in 78,300
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Middle English Maurice, from Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Maurice described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 58.7%
Black, not Hispanic 30.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Maurice

Emil Maurice (1897–1972)German officer
Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872)English theologian, religious author and Christian Socialist
Florian Maurice (born 1974)French footballer
Leonard of Port Maurice (1676–1751)Italian Franciscan preacher and ascetic writer
Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635–1673)Italian noble
Jean-Eudes Maurice (born 1986)French footballer
Paul Maurice (born 1967)Canadian ice hockey player and coach
María Belén Pérez Maurice (born 1985)Argentine fencer

People named Maurice with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Maurice

Also a first name

Maurice has been given to 138,943 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.