In 2025, 32 US girls were named Maureen, making it the 4,424th most common girls’ name of the year, up 562 places from #4,986 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 27 girls named Maureen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #88, reached in 1948. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,596, in 1957. For comparison, it was #3,638 in 2015 and #89 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maureen in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 7 babies. In all, 144,604 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 42,901 babies named Maureen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US girls were named Maureen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maura (19,970 babies since 1880), Maurine (8,954 babies since 1880) and Maren (13,064 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maurene, Mahreen and Marene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mary.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.