Maurice
Maurice is a boy name of Latin origin, meaning Dark-skinned; Moorish.
What Maurice means
Dark-skinned; Moorish.
Maurice sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Maurice comes from
Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.
Maurice is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.
How popular is Maurice?
In the boy name rankings we track, Maurice falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Maurice
The thread we file Maurice under is the long-established classics — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.
Themes: Classic
Names like Maurice
These share Maurice's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- August — Great, venerable, majestic.
- Julian — Youthful; devoted to Jupiter.
- Maximus — The greatest.
- Roman — Citizen of Rome; strong.
- Augustine — Great and venerable.
- Augustus — Great, venerable and majestic.
- Benedict — Blessed.
- Cassian — Of Cassius; an old Roman name.
- Cassius — Hollow; (later) clever.
- Crispin — Curly-haired.
- Fabian — Bean grower.
- Francis — Free one; Frenchman.