Meaning not yet researched.
Maura: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 127 in 2025. Its best rank was #468 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #468 in 1964; #1,640 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maura in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,640 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #468.
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Maura: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 127 girls in 2025. Peak: #468 in 1964 · most girls in one year: 430 (1964).
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Maura, making it the 1,640th most common girls’ name of the year, up 177 places from #1,817 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 111 girls named Maura in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #468, reached in 1964. That year also had the most girls given the name: 430. For comparison, it was #1,491 in 2015 and #1,024 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maura in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 5 babies. In all, 19,970 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 3,651 babies named Maura.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,275 US girls were named Maura; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,656 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maura ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #638 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Maureen (144,604 babies since 1880), Maurine (8,954 babies since 1880) and Mayra (33,561 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, German, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maura in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #638 | #374 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #880 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #981 | #960 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,038 | #812 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,105 | #1,129 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,121 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,311 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,610 | #1,573 |
| California | 10 | #2,037 | #2,647 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,326 | #2,526 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,375 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,817 | — | — |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,772 | — | — |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 2018 | 136 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2016 | 143 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 2015 | 154 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2013 | 152 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2012 | 177 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 2011 | 181 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 2010 | 193 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2009 | 195 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 2008 | 215 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2007 | 231 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2006 | 289 | #917 | — | — |
| 2005 | 318 | #816 | — | — |
| 2004 | 358 | #738 | — | — |
| 2003 | 317 | #781 | — | — |
| 2002 | 300 | #786 | — | — |
| 2001 | 372 | #674 | — | — |
| 2000 | 308 | #748 | — | — |
| 1999 | 310 | #728 | — | — |
| 1998 | 335 | #683 | — | — |
| 1997 | 361 | #620 | — | — |
| 1996 | 310 | #698 | — | — |
| 1995 | 303 | #698 | — | — |
| 1994 | 297 | #706 | — | — |
| 1993 | 311 | #695 | — | — |
| 1992 | 313 | #692 | — | — |
| 1991 | 374 | #602 | — | — |
| 1990 | 349 | #643 | — | — |
| 1989 | 347 | #614 | — | — |
| 1988 | 317 | #627 | — | — |
| 1987 | 271 | #683 | — | — |
| 1986 | 273 | #676 | — | — |
| 1985 | 267 | #676 | — | — |
| 1984 | 222 | #738 | — | — |
| 1983 | 248 | #685 | — | — |
| 1982 | 280 | #640 | 5 | #7,008 |
| 1981 | 236 | #711 | — | — |
| 1980 | 232 | #724 | — | — |
| 1979 | 229 | #726 | — | — |
| 1978 | 190 | #790 | — | — |
| 1977 | 194 | #780 | — | — |
| 1976 | 194 | #748 | — | — |
| 1975 | 174 | #798 | — | — |
| 1974 | 206 | #711 | — | — |
| 1973 | 216 | #691 | — | — |
| 1972 | 240 | #640 | — | — |
| 1971 | 262 | #634 | — | — |
| 1970 | 271 | #627 | — | — |
| 1969 | 325 | #548 | — | — |
| 1968 | 346 | #518 | — | — |
| 1967 | 337 | #518 | — | — |
| 1966 | 348 | #507 | — | — |
| 1965 | 385 | #484 | — | — |
| 1964 | 430 | #468 | — | — |
| 1963 | 418 | #473 | — | — |
| 1962 | 364 | #509 | — | — |
| 1961 | 366 | #512 | — | — |
| 1960 | 332 | #530 | — | — |
| 1959 | 311 | #553 | — | — |
| 1958 | 293 | #580 | — | — |
| 1957 | 288 | #570 | — | — |
| 1956 | 249 | #607 | — | — |
| 1955 | 218 | #632 | — | — |
| 1954 | 208 | #632 | — | — |
| 1953 | 140 | #776 | — | — |
| 1952 | 161 | #704 | — | — |
| 1951 | 121 | #814 | — | — |
| 1950 | 80 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1949 | 92 | #929 | — | — |
| 1948 | 99 | #878 | — | — |
| 1947 | 65 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1946 | 57 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1943 | 37 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,641 | — | — |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,092 | — | — |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,857 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 1921 | 14 | #2,586 | — | — |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,616 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,742 | — | — |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,081 | — | — |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,975 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).