girls:
144.2k births since 1896
#275 (95th percentile)
boys:
328 births since 1933
#4258 (7th percentile)
overall:
144.5k births since 1896
#518 (93rd percentile)
The name Maureen is the #518 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 144,543 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 93.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #275 (95.2% percentile) for all time with 144,215 births since 1896. For boys, it ranks #4,258 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 328 births since 1933.
Maureen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (1896 for girls and 1933 for boys). Birth data for Maureen is available in 125 out of the 128 years between 1896 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 42 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maureen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maureen reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 87.3% percentile (ranked #88) with 2,339 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 2,339 births per million (ranked 87.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1961, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maureen ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maureen reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #634) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 9 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1984.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maureen".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Maureen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.8% confident that Maureen is pronounced as maw-REEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAW-reen, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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