Maurilio
Masculine
Maurilio is an Italian and Spanish name built on the Latin word for a North African. That word spread across Europe in more directions than most, and one of them ends up in an English village on a summer afternoon.
How old is the name Maurilio?
Maurilio first appears in US birth records in 1920 — 105 years ago. The typical Maurilio alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 600 people named Maurilio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Maurilio most popular?
Maurilio peaked in 1934, reaching #2266 nationally. See the whole 1934 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Maurilio
Latin Maurus gave Europe a great deal. It produced the personal names Maurice, Mauro, Mauricio and this one. It produced moreno and moro as words for dark-complexioned, and the Spanish and Italian surnames built on them. It produced the English morris dance, which is very probably moorish dance, a label attached in the fifteenth century to a style of performance thought to be exotic, with the blackened faces that some sides still argue about. And it produced the color maroon by a separate route through the chestnut. One Roman geographical adjective, four hundred descendants, and almost nobody hears the connection.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Latin Maurus meant a Moor, an inhabitant of Roman North Africa, and that is documented. Whether this particular elaborated form comes from a specific saint or from Mauricio is not recorded.
Pronouncing Maurilio
mow-REE-lee-oh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. The first is the ow of how rather than the mor of more.
Nicknames for Maurilio
Moderate
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
- 1920
- Most boys named
- 199522 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2266reached in 1934
- Change vs 2022
- 0.0%11 in 2024, from 11
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.
Maurilio in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Maurilio in Italian — same name
- Mauricio in Spanish — related form
Maurilios among us
people named Maurilio 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
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Maurilio 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
- Mauri is a ready short form that Spanish and Italian households both recognize.
- Four open syllables make it unmistakable when spoken.
- It is entirely ordinary in Italy and Latin America and genuinely rare in the United States.
- Four syllables is a lot for an American form and it will be shortened by other people first.
- English readers will say MOR-ih-lee-oh, which is the main correction.
- The name's origin is a word for a people, which is worth being able to explain.
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Frequently asked
- How many Maurilios are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Maurilio are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Maurilio in 2025?
- Maurilio is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Maurilio with classmates?
- Maurilio will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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