# Maury (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maury/  
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 |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,770 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,512 / 258 (9% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | 8,320 |
| 1979 | 5 | 11,269 |
| 1980 | 6 | 9,859 |
| 1981 | 6 | 9,886 |
| 1982 | 8 | 7,933 |
| 1984 | 10 | 6,590 |
| 1988 | 5 | 13,102 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,787 |
| 1990 | 7 | 10,951 |
| 1993 | 8 | 10,211 |
| 1994 | 7 | 11,325 |
| 1995 | 6 | 12,767 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,981 |
| 2002 | 5 | 17,188 |
| 2006 | 6 | 16,443 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 10,377 |
| 2011 | 10 | 7,886 |
| 2012 | 11 | 7,381 |
| 2013 | 14 | 6,129 |
| 2014 | 9 | 8,563 |
| 2015 | 5 | 13,351 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,444 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,693 |
| 2018 | 14 | 6,220 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,508 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,406 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,483 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6,767 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,862 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,678 |

## People named Maury

- Maury Povich, American television personality
- Maury Chaykin, American actor (1949-2010)
- Maury Sterling, American actor
- Maury Wills, American baseball player and manager (1932–2022)
- Maury Maverick, American politician (1895-1954)
- Maury Dexter, American film director (1927-2017)
- Maury Travis, American serial killer (1965–2002)
- Jim Henson, American puppeteer (1936–1990)

## 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.