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Moris

Boys' name

Transliteration of Maurice

Moris has been given to 262 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1922, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Moris, 2023

1 in 663,000

Moris over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Moris: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Maurice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Moris means

Moris is a transliteration of Maurice.

Origin, language, and formation

Moris is used in Azerbaijani and Middle English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maurice.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 262 boys were recorded with the name Moris between 1915 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,673 in 1916.

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 Moris?

Moris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Moris 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Moris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Moriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Moris was born before 1989 — so the typical Moris is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
22.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
152
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2000s — 22.5% of all recorded uses (59).

Is Moris 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 1922 (11)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,673
1916

Spellings of Moris

Moris is not the most common spelling — Louis is, with 40.4% against Moris's 0.03%.

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.

Moris around the world

Where Moris 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 & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Moris 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
#2,673
1916
Peak year
1922
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
262
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Moris

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

WarisJarisMoritzMordyMoryKhrisCyrisSyrisMorseArrisMordcheMoradEdrisMoreySirisMoroccoAndrisTyrisMorioMorrieAarisKyrisMortyMorry

Sibling names for Moris

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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