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How popular is the name Maureen?

Births per year, rank history and how many Maureens are alive today.

Maureen (female), once a common girls' name, is now rarely given to new babies in England and Wales: just 6 in 2024, ranked 3696th. The name peaked in 1944, when around 8,400 babies were given the name, the 9th most popular that year. It has declined since 1944; the 2024 figure is roughly 1% of its peak. At least 15,000 babies have been named Maureen in England and Wales since 1924. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

The Maureen you are most likely to meet is around 81 years old. Half of all Maureens born in England and Wales are between 75 and 85, and there are at least 100,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 27% chance that at least one of them will be called Maureen.

How many babies are named Maureen each year?

Where does Maureen rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.