Mauricia
Recife is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is the largest urban area within both the North and the Northeast Region of Brazil. It is the largest city in Pernambuco state, and the fourth-largest urban area in all of Brazil; the metro population of the city of Recife was 3,726,974 in 2022.
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Mauricia
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Recife is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. It is the largest urban area within both the North and the Northeast Region of Brazil. It is the largest city in Pernambuco state, and the fourth-largest urban area in all of Brazil; the metro population of the city of Recife was 3,726,974 in 2022.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Portuguese
Origin & history
The Story of Mauricia
The earliest SSA record of Mauricia as a baby girl name dates back to 1915, when 6 babies received it. 1995 was its biggest year on record, with 24 newborns named Mauricia — #4,217 in the national rankings. About 26% of every Mauricia on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Mauricia last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 530 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Notable people named Mauricia
A small selection from Wikipedia. Tap "Read more" below to see the full list on Wikipedia.
- Guel Arraes , filmmaker.
- Mário Schenberg , physicist, electrical engineer, art critic and writer.
- Paulo Freire , educator and philosopher.
- José Leite Lopes , physicist.
- Clarice Lispector , writer.
- Paulo Ribenboim , mathematician.
- João Cabral de Melo Neto , poet and writer.
- Leopoldo Nachbin , mathematician who is best known for Nachbin's theorem .
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Names that sound like Mauricia
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About the name Mauricia
Mauricia is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1915 and has accumulated 530 births in the dataset. Mauricia's peak popularity came in 1995 when it ranked #4,217. Use the chart and map above to compare Mauricia'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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