Maurene
Maureen is a female name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire, which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam.
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Meaning & Origin of Maurene
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Maureen is a female name. In Gaelic, it is Máirín, a pet form of Máire, which is derived from the Hebrew Miriam.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
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The Story of Maurene
The earliest SSA record of Maurene as a baby girl name dates back to 1904, when 6 babies received it. 1954 was its biggest year on record, with 20 newborns named Maurene — #2,449 in the national rankings. About 20% of every Maurene on record arrived during the 1940s, its defining decade. Maurene last appeared in the published SSA data in 1981, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 635 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1900s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Maurene
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Maurene. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Notable people named Maurene
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- Maureen Anderman (born 1946), American actress
- Maureen Arthur (1934–2022), American actress
- Maureen Beattie (born 1953), Scottish actress
- Dame Maureen Brennan (born 1954), British educator
- Maureen Chadwick , British screenwriter, dramatist and television producer
- Maureen Charuni (born 1963), Sri Lankan actress
- Maureen Child (born 1951), American writer
- Maureen Colquhoun (1928–2021), British politician
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Names that sound like Maurene
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About the name Maurene
Maurene is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1904 and has accumulated 635 births in the dataset. Maurene's peak popularity came in 1954 when it ranked #2,449. Use the chart and map above to compare Maurene's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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