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Maor

Boys' name

A light

Maor has been given to 124 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Maor, 2019

1 in 496,000

Maor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maor: meaning, origin, and history

A light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maor means

Maor means “a light”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maor is used in Hebrew.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ma.ˈʔoʁ/ for Maor.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 124 boys were recorded with the name Maor between 1991 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,926 in 1997.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Maor?

Maor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 256,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maor was born before 2008 — so the typical Maor is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
49.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
124
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 49.2% of all recorded uses (61).

Is Maor rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2008 (13)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,926
1997

Spellings of Maor

Maor is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 58.6% against Maor's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maor is used

Across 1910–2025, Maor was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maor around the world

Where Maor ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2014–2025
    #5,290
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maor by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,926
1997
Peak year
2008
13 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
124
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maor

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaoNaor

Sibling names for Maor

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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