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Maureen

Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
UK rank, 2025
#3,409 for girls
US rank, 2025
#4,351 for girls

Maureen is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies) and 4,351st for girls in the US (32 babies).

What does Maureen mean?

Irish

A female given name from Irish.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Maureen a girl's or a boy's name?

Maureen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK and 32 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Maureen in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,409among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 40,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 233% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Maureen, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1997, with 14 girls.

Half of all the girls named Maureen in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2014. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.

In the England and Wales top 100 for girls, which the ONS has published every ten years since 1904: 1924 (#95), 1934 (#13), 1944 (#9), 1954 (#30) and 1964 (#94).

1996Busiest: 14 in 19972025
Maureen in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#3,409
20246#3,758
20237#3,388
20220–
20213#5,824
20200–
20193#5,804
20183#5,896
20174#4,967
20160–
20154#4,951
20144#4,888
20131#7,690
20126#3,881
20111#7,717
20104#4,931
20098#2,909
20080–
20073#5,415
20069#2,451
20054#4,150
20045#3,356
200310#1,954
20029#2,040
20015#2,928
20009#1,942
199910#1,770
199810#1,815
199714#1,387
199610#1,741

How popular is Maureen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,351among girls
Babies in 2025
32about 1 in 50,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 21% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 32 girls in the US were named Maureen, making it the 4,351st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 1957, with 4,596 girls. It first appears in the records in 1896.

Half of all the girls named Maureen in the US since 1880 were born between 1947 and 1964, the years shaded on the chart below.

1896Busiest: 4,596 in 19572025
Maureen in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202532#4,351
202427#4,890
202336#4,045
202242#3,651
202127#4,829
202030#4,451
201949#3,221
201841#3,676
201745#3,435
201641#3,707
201543#3,595
201455#3,039
201343#3,571
201255#3,039
201162#2,795
201044#3,571
200961#2,851
200867#2,718
200758#3,023
2006112#1,825
200588#2,105
2004105#1,810
2003126#1,533
2002123#1,534
2001133#1,421
2000162#1,223
1999173#1,131
1998199#1,003
1997212#939
1996234#852
1995257#775
1994305#689
1993322#678
1992385#593
1991440#530
1990491#496
1989487#485
1988595#405
1987554#408
1986628#374
1985672#349
1984721#326
1983841#280
1982914#270
1981829#293
1980881#280
1979882#275
1978774#299
1977841#287
1976809#283
1975877#277
19741,011#253
19731,032#246
19721,172#237
19711,471#203
19701,789#182
19692,012#161
19682,175#148
19672,702#129
19663,015#119
19653,481#107
19643,836#107
19634,011#108
19624,128#108
19614,569#104
19604,520#106
19594,448#106
19584,457#110
19574,596#103
19564,504#102
19554,339#100
19544,370#97
19534,112#92
19524,039#94
19513,878#93
19504,070#89
19493,923#89
19484,077#88
19474,085#98
19463,684#95
19452,674#105
19442,536#107
19432,760#105
19422,721#102
19411,992#129
19401,810#135
19391,586#146
19381,611#144
19371,395#155
19361,329#155
19351,230#162
19341,086#171
19331,063#170
1932887#204
1931741#223
1930532#281
1929309#381
1928284#399
1927243#440
1926225#451
1925157#572
1924194#513
1923183#519
1922132#637
1921147#595
1920107#702
191995#717
1918113#671
191793#721
191693#712
1915114#611
191460#742
191355#701
191240#786
191126#838
191014#1,207
190917#990
190811#1,261
190718#898
190611#1,154
19057#1,537
190410#1,170
19037#1,440
19025#1,792
19015#1,678
19000–
18990–
18985#1,699
18970–
18967#1,292

Names like Maureen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Names related to Maureen

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Maureen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maureen, updated 20 October 2026.