# Maurits (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maurits/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |

## People named Maurits

- Maurits Kjærgaard, Danish association football player
- Maurits Verdonck, Belgian rower (1879–1968)
- Maurits Lammertink, Dutch cyclist
- Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau-Vollenhoven, eldest son of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van Vollenhoven (born 1968)
- Maurits Crucq, field hockey player
- Maurits Post, Architect from the Northern Netherlands
- Maurits Binger, Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter (1868–1923)
- Frederik Maurits van der Wulp, Dutch entomologist and scientific illustrator (1818-1899)
- M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)
- Maurice of Nassau, Dutch Republic stadtholder and Prince of Orange (1567-1625)
- Saint Maurice, Egyptian saint and leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion
- Moritz William, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz

## 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.