Mauricia
Feminine · “Moorish (from Latin Mauritius)”
Mauricia is the Spanish feminine of Mauricio, which is Maurice, and it goes back to a Latin word for a Moor. It has a vivid place in Spanish fiction: in Benito Pérez Galdós's Fortunata y Jacinta, one of the best-known Spanish novels of the nineteenth century, Mauricia la Dura is the unruly woman the heroine meets inside a convent for reformed women.
How old is the name Mauricia?
Mauricia first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Mauricia alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 500 people named Mauricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mauricia most popular?
Mauricia peaked in 1917, reaching #2693 nationally. See the whole 1917 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Maurus (Latin: a Moor) to Mauricia
The story of Mauricia
Behind Mauricia stands Mauritius, a Roman name built on maurus, the Latin word for a Moor. English kept the same word in an unexpected place: the morris dance of English village greens was first called the moreys daunce, the Moorish dance, though nobody has settled why English dancers took that label. Spanish carried the Latin name forward as Mauricio and made Mauricia by the ordinary change of the final vowel. In fiction the feminine found its most memorable bearer in Galdós, whose Mauricia la Dura, the hard one, drinks, fights and steals every scene she is in.
Meaning
Moorish (from Latin Mauritius)
Latin Mauritius was a family name formed from Maurus, a Moor, at first a person from Mauretania in North Africa. Mauricio is its Spanish form, and Mauricia the feminine.
How the name formed
- MaurusLatin: a Moor
- MauritiusLatin family name
- MauricioSpanish
- Mauricia
Related forms: Maurizia · Maurice · Moritz
Pronouncing Mauricia
mow-REE-see-ah
Four syllables, stressed on the second; the first syllable rhymes with how. In much of Spain the c is said like the th in thin.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most girls named
- 199524 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2693reached in 1917
- Change vs 2018
- +16.7%7 in 2020, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mauricia in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maurizia in Italian — same name
- Maurice in French — related form
- Moritz in German — related form
Mauricias among us
people named Mauricia are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
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Fashion outlook
Mauricia sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Plainly the feminine of Mauricio and Maurice, so its source is easy to explain.
- A literary bearer in Galdós, one of the most admired Spanish novelists.
- Spelled by ordinary Spanish rules, with an exact parallel in Italian Maurizia.
- English speakers may hear Maurice first and think of a man's name, or put the stress on the first syllable.
- The novel's Mauricia is a drinker and a brawler, which is her charm on the page; readers of Galdós will think of her, and most people will not know the book at all.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mauricias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Mauricia are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mauricia in 2025?
- Mauricia is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Mauricia with classmates?
- Mauricia will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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