Girls' name · peaked in 1964

Maura name popularity since 1925

19,856 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Maura. Half of them were born in 1985 or earlier, so the typical Maura is about 41 years old in 2026. Maura peaked in 1964 as the #468 name for girls, and it was outside the top 1,000 in 2025.

US babies since 1925: 19,856; Named Maura, 1925–2025
Peak year: 1964; #468 for girls that year
Typical age: About 41; Median birth year 1985
In 2025: Not top 1,000; #1,640 for girls in 2025
Girls / boys: 100.0% girls; 19,851 girls · 5 boys
Most popular in: Massachusetts; 6.43× its national share

Peak year is the year Maura made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Maura births per year, 1925–2025

1964 was the biggest year for Maura both by count and as a share of all babies.

Fastest rise: Between 1953 and 1958, Maura became 2× more common, from 1 in 13,400 baby girls to 1 in 6,870.
Steepest fall: Between 2004 and 2009, its share of baby girls fell by 46%, from 1 in 5,130 to 1 in 9,420.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Maura's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Maura.

Decade by decade

Babies named Maura in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade	Girls	Boys	Rank
1925–29	59	0	–
1930s	212	0	#1,295
1940s	532	0	#1,227
1950s	2,069	0	#632
1960s	3,651	0	#484
1970s	2,176	0	#798
1980s	2,693	5	#676
1990s	3,263	0	#698
2000s	2,903	0	#816
2010s	1,618	0	#1,491
2020–25	675	0	#1,640

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

23.8% of babies named Maura from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Millennial years (1981–1996). The full split by generation:

Where Maura is most popular

The index compares Maura's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Maura.

State	Index	Babies
Massachusetts	6.43×	2,454
Connecticut	4.04×	702
Pennsylvania	3.14×	2,558
New York	2.29×	2,789
New Jersey	2.19×	969

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Maura's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Maura.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Maura (1964).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data