How rare is the name Mauricio?

40,524 people in the United States have the first name Mauricio, about 1 in 7,453. It ranks #1,035 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MAURICIO

#1,035

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
40,524
About
1 in 7,453
This common or more
70.5%
Who bears it

Of the 40,524 people named Mauricio, 94.6% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 3.7% as White. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mauricio peaked in 2008, when 829 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18852025
Peak year
2008
Births that year
829
In 2025*
413 ▼50%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 24,231 babies have been given the name since 1885. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mauricio by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #790. The largest share of babies named Mauricio, 44.6%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1880s#2,74510
1910s#5,33861
1920s#4,723123
1930s#4,164123
1940s#4,186139
1950s#3,601238
1960s#2,199675
1970s#1,6171,381
1980s#1,4082,072
1990s#1,0884,098
2000s#7907,597
2010s#1,1115,230
2020s#1,3382,484
Before 19010%
Greatest Generation 1901–270.7%
Silent Generation 1928–450.9%
Baby boom 1946–642.3%
Generation X 1965–808.1%
Millennials 1981–9619.1%
Generation Z 1997–1244.6%
2013 and later24.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mauricio is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mauricio has been most common in Texas (3.5×), Nevada (3.2×), and California (3.2×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.05×).

21,874 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mauricio, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Mauricio ranks #6,327 of 156,621, with 5,169 people. See Mauricio as a last name

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