Mori
#12,766 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mori has been given to 129 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #12,766 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 64% girls, 36% boys all-time.
Babies named Mori, 2025
1 in 474,000
Mori over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Mori over time
In 2025, Mori went to 50% girls and 50% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Mori?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,766
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mori sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mori. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Moris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mori was born before 1982 — so the typical Mori is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 30.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 82
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Mori 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
- 87.5%
- Peak was 1980 (8)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.4% average annual change
Spellings of Mori
Mori is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 54.3% against Mori'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.
Mori around the world
Where Mori 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.
- England & Wales2024–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2020–2024#6,712in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Mori by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mori
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mori
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.