Maurice


Gender:
Origin: Latin
2978 famous people named Maurice found on Wikipedia.
134492 male, 2611 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 670-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 94-th in year 1914
Used in: English, French

Meanings

Maurice is a traditionally masculine given name. It originates as a French name derived from the Latin Mauritius or Mauricius and was subsequently used in other languages. Its popularity is due to Mauritius, a saint of the Theban Legion (died 287). Mauritius is otherwise attested as a given name of the Roman Empire period, in origin meaning "one from Mauritania", i.e. "the Moor".
Forms in other languages include: Spanish Mauricio, Italian Maurizio, Dutch Maurits, Greek Μαυρίκιος (Mavrikios), Russian Маврикий (Mavrikiy), German Moritz, English Morris.

Masc. proper name, from French Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, from Latin Maurus "inhabitant of Mauretania, Moor" (see Moor).

Derived from the Latin Mauritius (Moorish), a derivative of Maurus (a Moor).

Famous People: 2978 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Maurice Gibb 1949 British musician
2 Maurice White 1941 American musician, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire
3 Maurice Ravel 1875 French composer
4 Maurice LaMarche 1958 Canadian voice actor and former comedian
5 Maurice Clarett 1983 American football running back
6 Maurice Jones-Drew 1985 All-American college football player, professional football player, running back, kick returner
7 Maurice Richard 1921 Canadian ice hockey player
8 Maurice Starr 1953 American musician
9 Maurice Sendak 1928 American illustrator and writer of children's books
10 Maurice Chevalier 1888 French actor, singer and entertainer
11 Maurice Grosse 1919 British paranormal investigator
12 Maurice Jarre 1924 French composer
13 Maurice Benard 1963 Actor
14 Maurice Ashley 1966 Chess Grandmaster
15 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 1908 French phenomenological philosopher
16 Maurice Bucaille 1920 French physician and author
17 Maurice Cheeks 1956 American basketball player/coach
18 Maurice Harkless 1993 American basketball player
19 Maurice Tempelsman 1929 American businessman
20 Maurice Wilkins 1916 New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
21 Emil Maurice 1897 German officer
22 Maurice Barthélemy 1969 French actor, film director and screenwriter
23 Maurice Boucher 1953 Canadian murderer
24 Saint Mauricio Leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion
25 Maurice R. Greenberg 1925 American businessman
26 Maurice Smith 1961 Mixed martial artist
27 Maurice Bishop 1944 Prime Minister of Grenada
28 Maurice Lamy 1963 French actor
29 Maurice Ndour 1992 Senegalese basketball player
30 Valérie Maurice 1964 French actress and journalist
31 Maurice Edu 1986 American soccer player
32 Maurice Maeterlinck 1862 Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist
33 Maurice Duplessis 1890 Former Premier of Quebec
34 Maurice Barrymore 1849 British actor
35 Maurice Vachon 1929 Canadian professional wrestler
36 Maurice Hilleman 1919 Pioneering vaccinologist
37 Maurice Lucas 1952 American basketball player-coach
38 Paul Maurice 1967 Canadian ice hockey player and coach
39 Maurice Roëves 1937 English actor
40 Maurice Strong 1929 Canadian businessman
41 Maurice Gamelin 1872 French general
42 Maurice Blanchot 1907 French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist
43 Maurice Denham 1909 British actor
44 Maurice Stokes 1933 American basketball player
45 Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi 1946 British businessman, politician
46 Maurice Utrillo 1883 French painter
47 Maurice Wilson 1898 British mountain climber
48 Maurice de Vlaminck 1876 French painter
49 Maurice Levy Character from The Wire
50 Maurice Papon 1910 French civil servant (1910-2007)
51 Maurice Koechlin 1856 French engineer
52 Maurice Leblanc 1864 French writer
53 Maurice Ronet 1927 French actor
54 Maurice de Saxe 1696 Marshal General of France
55 Maurice Podoloff 1890 American sports executive
56 Maurice DuBois 1965 American journalist
57 Maurice Compte 2000 American actor and film actor
58 Maurice Dean Wint 1964 Canadian actor
59 Maurice Barrier 1932 French actor
60 Maurice Druon 1918 French writer
61 Maurice Duruflé 1902 French classical composer and organist
62 Maurice Flanagan 1928 British businessman
63 Maurice Hines 1943 American singer, actor and director
64 Maurice Szafran 1954 French journalist
65 Maurice Solovine 1875 Romanian philosopher and mathematician
66 Maurice Ward 1933 British inventor mainly known for the invention of a thermal insulator called starlite.
67 Maurice Rioli 1957 Australian rules footballer and politician
68 Maurice Garin 1871 Road bicycle racer best known for winning the first 1903 Tour de France
69 Maurice Gosfield 1913 Actor
70 Maurice Taylor 1976 American basketball player
71 Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster 1948 Irish nobleman
72 Maurice Clemmons 1972 American mass murderer
73 Maurice Kaufmann 1927 British actor
74 Maurice Herzog 1919 French mountaineer and politician
75 Maurice Denis 1870 French painter
76 Jean-Eudes Maurice 1986 Footballer
77 Maurice Evans 1978 American basketball player
78 Maurice Obstfeld 1952 American economist
79 Maurice Wilkes 1913 British computer scientist
80 Maurice Peston, Baron Peston 1931 English economist and Labour parliamentarian
81 Maurice Macmillan 1921 British politician
82 Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy 1885 British politician
83 Maurice Ager 1984 American basketball player
84 Maurice Béjart 1927 French-born Swiss dancer and choreographer
85 Ann Maurice 1951 American interior designer and house stager
86 Maurice Barrès 1862 French novelist
87 Maurice Rose 1899 United States Army general
88 Maurice Costello 1877 American actor and film director
89 Maurice Halbwachs 1877 French sociologist
90 Maurice Lévy 1942 French businessman
91 Maurice Pialat 1925 French filmmaker
92 Maurice Fiennes 1907 British businessman
93 Maurice Quentin de La Tour 1704 French Rococo portraitist
94 Maurice Allais 1911 French economist; 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
95 Maurice Vaudaux 1949 French actor
96 Maurice Prendergast 1858 American-Canadian artist
97 Maurice Colbourne 1939 British actor
98 Maurice de Rothschild 1881 French banker
99 Maurice Favières 1922 French radio host and television presenter
100 Maurice Bowra 1898 English classical scholar, academic, and wit
101 Maurice Thorez 1900 French politician
102 Maurice Stans 1908 American accountant, civil servant
103 Maurice Dease 1889 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
104 Frederick Denison Maurice 1805 English theologian, religious author and Christian Socialist
105 Maurice Duverger 1917 French academic
106 Maurice Oldfield 1915 Chief of the SIS
107 Maurice André 1933 French trumpeter born in Occitania
108 Maurice Trintignant 1917 French racecar driver
109 Maurice Gajda 1983 German journalist, television presenter and radio host
110 Maurice 1965 French radio host
111 Jean-François Maurice 1947 French singer and composer
112 Maurice Binder 1925 American film title designer
113 Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr.
114 Maurice Benayoun 1957 French visual artist
115 Maurice de Hirsch 1831 German banker
116 Maurice Bonham Carter 1880 English Liberal politician, civil servant and cricketer
117 Maurice Sand 1823 French illustrator and writer
118 Maurice Yaméogo 1921 Burkina Faso President
119 Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman 1961 British philosopher
120 Maurice Couve de Murville 1907 French politician
121 Maurice Malpas 1962 Scottish footballer and manager
122 Maurice J. Tobin 1901 American politician
123 Maurice Godin 1966 American actor
124 Maurice Wilks 1904 British automobile designer
125 Maurice Baring 1874 English writer
126 Maurice Noble 1910 American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer
127 Maurice Walsh 1879 Irish writer
128 Maurice Nadeau 1911 French writer
129 Maurice Ewing 1906 Geophysicist and oceanographer
130 Maurice Alexander 1991 American football player
131 Maurice Dorléac 1901 French actor
132 Maurice Buckmaster 1902 SOE officer
133 Maurice Goldhaber 1911 American physicist
134 Maurice Kanbar 1930 American businessman
135 Maurice Godelier 1934 French anthropologist
136 Maurice Sarrail 1856 French general
137 Maurice G. Dantec 1959 French novelist, essayist
138 Maurice Challe 1905 French general
139 Maurice Hinchey 1938 American politician
140 Maurice Bavaud 1916 Swiss assassin
141 Maurice Bardèche 1907 French writer
142 Maurice Armitage 1945
143 Maurice Flitcroft 1929 British golfer
144 Maurice Abravanel 1903 Greek-American Jewish conductor
145 Maurice Ross 1981 Scottish footballer
146 Maurice Bloch 1939 Anthropologist
147 Maurice Dobb 1900 British economist
148 Maurice Fargues 1913 French Navy GRS diver
149 Maurice Pons 1927 French novelist and short story writer
150 Maurice Decoster French actor
151 Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey 1877 British civil servant
152 Maurice Sarfati 1931 French actor
153 Maurice Ferre 1935 Puerto Rican mayor
154 Maurice Frydman 1901 Indian activist
155 Maurice Karnaugh 1924 American physicist
156 Maurice Wilder-Neligan 1882 Australian Army officer
157 Maurice Gran 1949 British scriptwriter
158 Maurice Blondel 1861 French philosopher
159 Maurice Tourneur 1876 French film director and screenwriter
160 Maurice Joly 1829 French satirist and lawyer
161 Maurice of the Palatinate 1621 Count Palatine of the Rhine, Royalist of the English Civil War
162 Maurice Vidal Portman 1860 British naval officer
163 Maurice Carthon 1961 American football player and coach
164 Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley 1271 English noble and rebel
165 Maurice Purify 1986 American football player
166 Maurice Petty 1939 American NASCAR crew chief
167 Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy 1967 Irish Baron
168 Maurice Hurley 1939 American screenwriter and producer
169 Maurice Gee 1931 Novelist from New Zealand
170 Maurice Bessinger 1930 American restaurateur
171 Maurice Nicoll 1884 British writer
172 Maurice Girodias 1919 Book publisher
173 Maurice Setters 1936 English footballer and manager
174 Maurice Karl 1978 German actor
175 Maurice Odumbe 1969 Kenyan cricketer
176 Maurice Mimoun 1955
177 Maurice de Sully 1110 Medieval churchman
178 Maurice Ohana 1913 Anglo-French composer
179 Maurice Deville 1992 Footballer
180 Maurice Kirya 1982 Ugandan musician
181 Maurice Auzel 1932 French actor and boxer
182 Maurice Britt 1919 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
183 Maurice Fanon 1929 French singer-songwriter
184 Maurice Kendall 1907 Statistician
185 Florian Maurice 1974 Footballer
186 Maurice Dupin de Francueil 1778
187 Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan 1200 Anglo-Norman noble
188 Maurice Norman 1934 English footballer
189 Maurice Hope 1951 British boxer
190 Maurice Motamed 1945 Iranian politician
191 Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow 1948 Northern Irish unionist politician
192 Maurice Ephrussi 1849 Russian-French Jewish banker
193 Maurice Rouvier 1842 French statesman
194 Maurice Paléologue 1859 French diplomat, writer
195 Maurice Samuel 1895 Novelist, translator and lecturer
196 Maurice Morris 1979 Player of American football
197 Maurice B. Clark American businessman
198 Maurice Schumann 1911 French politician
199 Maurice René Fréchet 1878 French mathematician
200 Maurice Suckling 1726 British Naval officer