Maura
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births · Last seen for boys in 1982 at #6,385
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1964 · 430 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 19,965since 1903
Maura over time
Rank among girls' names. Maura has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,810 | 111 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,984 | 99 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,763 | 117 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,103 | 90 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,593 | 131 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,608 | 132 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,585 | 136 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,251 | 189 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,560 | 143 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,488 | 154 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,416 | 161 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,466 | 152 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,326 | 177 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,301 | 181 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,244 | 193 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,256 | 195 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,184 | 215 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,122 | 231 | — | |
| 2006 | #913 | 289 | — | |
| 2005 | #812 | 318 | — | |
| 2004 | #737 | 358 | — | |
| 2003 | #779 | 317 | — | |
| 2002 | #785 | 300 | — | |
| 2001 | #674 | 372 | — | |
| 2000 | #747 | 308 | — | |
| 1999 | #727 | 310 | — | |
| 1998 | #682 | 335 | — | |
| 1997 | #619 | 361 | — | |
| 1996 | #697 | 310 | — | |
| 1995 | #697 | 303 | — | |
| 1994 | #706 | 297 | — | |
| 1993 | #695 | 311 | — | |
| 1992 | #690 | 313 | — | |
| 1991 | #602 | 374 | — | |
| 1990 | #642 | 349 | — | |
| 1989 | #613 | 347 | — | |
| 1988 | #626 | 317 | — | |
| 1987 | #680 | 271 | — | |
| 1986 | #670 | 273 | — | |
| 1985 | #675 | 267 | — | |
| 1984 | #737 | 222 | — | |
| 1983 | #683 | 248 | — | |
| 1982 | #639 | 280 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #711 | 236 | — | |
| 1980 | #721 | 232 | — | |
| 1979 | #725 | 229 | — | |
| 1978 | #790 | 190 | — | |
| 1977 | #779 | 194 | — | |
| 1976 | #747 | 194 | — | |
| 1975 | #795 | 174 | — | |
| 1974 | #709 | 206 | — | |
| 1973 | #691 | 216 | — | |
| 1972 | #639 | 240 | — | |
| 1971 | #632 | 262 | — | |
| 1970 | #627 | 271 | — | |
| 1969 | #548 | 325 | — | |
| 1968 | #518 | 346 | — | |
| 1967 | #517 | 337 | — | |
| 1966 | #506 | 348 | — | |
| 1965 | #484 | 385 | — | |
| 1964 | #468 | 430 | — | |
| 1963 | #473 | 418 | — | |
| 1962 | #509 | 364 | — | |
| 1961 | #511 | 366 | — | |
| 1960 | #530 | 332 | — | |
| 1959 | #552 | 311 | — | |
| 1958 | #577 | 293 | — | |
| 1957 | #569 | 288 | — | |
| 1956 | #604 | 249 | — | |
| 1955 | #630 | 218 | — | |
| 1954 | #632 | 208 | — | |
| 1953 | #776 | 140 | — | |
| 1952 | #703 | 161 | — | |
| 1951 | #813 | 121 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,018 | 80 | — | |
| 1949 | #927 | 92 | — | |
| 1948 | #876 | 99 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,106 | 65 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,121 | 57 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,213 | 43 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,224 | 42 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,342 | 37 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,438 | 32 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,294 | 35 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,374 | 30 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,544 | 24 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,505 | 25 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,264 | 32 | — | |
| 1934 | #1,518 | 24 | — | |
| 1933 | #1,606 | 22 | — | |
| 1932 | #1,634 | 22 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,425 | 13 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,737 | 11 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,018 | 19 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,212 | 17 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,509 | 14 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,263 | 16 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | — | |
| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 | — | |
| 1917 | #4,594 | 5 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 | — | |
| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 | — | |
| 1914 | — | — | ||
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
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| 1908 | — | — | ||
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| 1904 | — | — | ||
| 1903 | #1,792 | 5 | — | |
| 1902 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Maura! It came in at #1,792, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1903–1912, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Maura
- 179 spots since 2024 (#1,810 → #1,631)
- 38 spots since 2020 (#1,593 → #1,631)
- 143 spots since 2015 (#1,488 → #1,631)
- Biggest jump: 230 spots in 1948 (#1,106 → #876)
- Biggest drop: 209 spots in 2007 (#913 → #1,122)
- Debuted 1903
- Peaked 1964 at #468 (430 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 58 yrs · run 1951–2006
- Highest: 1 in 4,407 girls born in 1964 were named Maura (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,656 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 18.3% of all girls named Maura (3,651) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,792 (1903) | #1,792 |
| 1910s | 43 | #2,827 (1913) | #3,644 |
| 1920s | 125 | #2,018 (1925) | #2,772 |
| 1930s | 212 | #1,264 (1935) | #1,739 |
| 1940s | 532 | #876 (1948) | #1,192 |
| 1950s | 2,069 | #552 (1959) | #687 |
| 1960s | 3,651 | #468 (1964) | #506 |
| 1970s | 2,176 | #627 (1970) | #713 |
| 1980s | 2,693 | #613 (1989) | #676 |
| 1990s | 3,263 | #602 (1991) | #676 |
| 2000s | 2,903 | #674 (2001) | #901 |
| 2010s | 1,618 | #1,244 (2010) | #1,425 |
| 2020s | 675 | #1,593 (2020) | #1,814 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maura in 1982
Top girls' names in 1982
Top boys' names in 1982
More about 1982
girls
1,693,325 girls got a published name in 1982; 1 in 6,048 of them was named Maura, which outranked 94.8% of the 12,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,814,447 boys got a published name in 1982; 1 in 362,889 of them was named Maura, which outranked 13.3% of the 7,367 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 982 names at #6,385; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.