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Maurene

Girls' name

Variant of Maureen

Maurene has been given to 635 babies in the U.S. since 1904. 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 1954, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Maurene, 1981

1 in 577,000

Maurene over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maurene: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Maureen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maurene means

Maurene is a variant of Maureen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maurene is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɔ.ˈɹin/ for Maurene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maurene → Maureen → Máirín → Máire → Maria → מרים. The family’s proposed meaning is “to be bitter”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements m-r-r.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maureen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 635 girls were recorded with the name Maurene between 1904 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1954; its best national rank was #1,791 in 1904.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maurene?

Maurene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1981
1 in 577,000
6 of 3,459,130 births
Among girls only
1 in 278,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1981
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
399,616 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maurene sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 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 399,616 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maurene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maurenes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maurene was born before 1941 — so the typical Maurene is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
19.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
212
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1940s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (124).

Is Maurene 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 1954 (20)
Years since peak
71
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
49.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,791
1904

Spellings of Maurene

Maurene is not the most common spelling — Lauren is, with 59.5% against Maurene's 0.08%.

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 Maurene is used

Across 1910–2025, Maurene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Maurene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maurene around the world

Where Maurene 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
    1996–1996
    #3,814
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1951–1964
    #653
    in 1964

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maurene by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,791
1904
Peak year
1954
20 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
635
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maurene

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

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Sibling names for Maurene

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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