Mauricio is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “dark-skinned, Moorish.” In 2024 it was given to 442 boys in the United States.
Mauricio at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
“dark-skinned, Moorish”
About the name Mauricio
Mauricio belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its meaning — “dark-skinned, Moorish” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Mauricio first appears in Social Security records in 1885. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #352 in 2002, and in 2024 442 babies received the name — 23,812 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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