Given name
Maurie
“a dark-skinned man; Moorish”
Maurie is a variant of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Maurie is a variant of Maurice. One Latin interpretation is “a dark-skinned man; Moorish.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Maurie 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 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maurie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 415
- 98 boys · 317 girls
- Most popular year
- 1962
- 22 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1962. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 522 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maurie
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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