# Maura (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maura/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 19,970 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 19,965 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 60, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Either from Irish Máire and Scottish Gaelic Màiri, or from Italian Maura. When borrowed from Irish, a doublet of Moira.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 181 | 1,306 |
| 2012 | 177 | 1,329 |
| 2013 | 152 | 1,469 |
| 2014 | 161 | 1,418 |
| 2015 | 154 | 1,491 |
| 2016 | 143 | 1,565 |
| 2017 | 189 | 1,255 |
| 2018 | 136 | 1,586 |
| 2019 | 132 | 1,612 |
| 2020 | 131 | 1,600 |
| 2021 | 90 | 2,112 |
| 2022 | 117 | 1,772 |
| 2023 | 99 | 1,994 |
| 2024 | 111 | 1,817 |
| 2025 | 127 | 1,640 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | 7,008 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |
| 1998 | 7 | 2,165 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,770 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4,373 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,970 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5,061 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3,318 |

## People named Maura

- Maura Tierney, American actress
- Maura Healey, 73rd governor of Massachusetts (born 1971)
- Maura West, American actress
- Maura Visser, Dutch handball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.