Given name & surname
Mauri
“a dark-skinned man; Moorish”
Mauri is a variant of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mauri is a variant of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mauri is a variant of Maurice. An origin associated with Maurice is Late Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mauri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 997
- 159 boys · 838 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,437 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +31%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,437 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 23 in 1971. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,175 as a first name in 2020; 667 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mauri’s family of names
Mauri has a related form in Maurice. In Finnish usage, Mauri has a related form in MAKE. In Finnish usage, Mauri has a conventional equivalent in the English form Maurice.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mauri
- Mauri KunnasFinnish writer and cartoonistborn 1950
- Mauri RoseAmerican racing driver1906–1981
- Mauri VansevenantBelgian cyclistborn 1999
- Mauri RöppänenFinnish biathlete and shooterborn 1946
- MauriSpanish footballer (1934–2022)
- Mauri PeltokangasFinnish politicianborn 1966
- Mauri Nyberg-Noromagymnast (1908–1939)
- Mauri PekkarinenFinnish politicianborn 1947
- Mauri RyömäFinnish politician, journalist and bandy player1911–1958
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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