Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Maurine isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1890. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Maurine through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8,954
- 0 boys · 8,954 girls
- Most popular year
- 1917
- 313 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,438 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,438 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 313 in 1917. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,574 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.
Maurine’s family of names
Maurine has a related form in Maureen. In Irish usage, Maurine has a related form in Máirín.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Maurine
- Maurine NeubergerUS Senator from Oregon (1907–2000)
- Maurine Dallas WatkinsAmerican journalist (1896–1969)
- MaurineBrazilian association football playerborn 1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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