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Baby name
Maurice
Boy
Origin of the name
Maurice comes from the Latin Mauricius, from Maurus, “Moor,” an inhabitant of Mauretania, in North Africa. Saint Maurice, a Roman soldier martyred at the end of the 3rd century, spread it.
Classic name
136,332births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 101rank at its peak, in 1921
Where babies named Maurice are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Maurice is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Maurice is most common in District of Columbia (4.2 times), New Hampshire (4.1) and Maine (3.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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