Meaning of the nameMaura

Maura is a feminine name of Latin origin, the feminine of Maurus, a name that Behind the Name translates as 'North African, Moor'.

Meaning

“feminine form of Mauro, from Latin Maurus, 'North African, Moor'”

Source: Behind the Name: Maura · Behind the Name: Maurus · Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Mauro

People (2022): 33,898
Rank in Brazil: #753
Median age: 57 years
2010 Census: 39,934; people

Maura in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Maura, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1960s (8,138 people).

33,683 women 215 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Maura is most common

States with the highest share of people named Maura in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Minas Gerais 0.034%
Espírito Santo 0.028%
Goiás 0.024%
Rondônia 0.021%
Piauí 0.020%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	7,593	0.017%
Minas Gerais	7,071	0.034%
Rio de Janeiro	2,867	0.018%
Bahia	2,579	0.018%
Goiás	1,691	0.024%
Paraná	1,676	0.015%
Rio Grande do Sul	1,103	0.010%
Espírito Santo	1,076	0.028%
Santa Catarina	1,029	0.014%
Pará	910	0.011%
Maranhão	857	0.013%
Piauí	641	0.020%
Mato Grosso	610	0.017%
Mato Grosso do Sul	534	0.019%
Ceará	523	0.006%
Pernambuco	464	0.005%
Distrito Federal	451	0.016%
Alagoas	419	0.013%
Amazonas	330	0.008%
Rondônia	327	0.021%
Rio Grande do Norte	278	0.008%
Paraíba	243	0.006%
Tocantins	218	0.014%
Sergipe	213	0.010%
Acre	80	0.010%
Amapá	60	0.008%
Roraima	55	0.009%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Maura

Behind the Name gives Maura as the feminine form of Maurus, a Latin name meaning 'North African, Moor' that comes from a Greek word. Wiktionary records Mauro in Portuguese as a learned borrowing from Latin Maurus, a doublet of the Portuguese word mouro, 'Moor', and gives Maura as the feminine. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil, citing Machado (1981), explains Mauro through Italian Mauro and Latin maurus, 'Moor', 'dark-skinned'. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 33,898 people named Maura, with a median age of 57. The name is almost always female and, proportionally, it is most common in Minas Gerais.

Sources

Behind the Name: Maura · behindthename.com · meaning
Behind the Name: Maurus · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Mauro · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Mauro · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · meaning

Questions about the name Maura

What does the name Maura mean?

Maura means “feminine form of Mauro, from Latin Maurus, 'North African, Moor'”, according to Behind the Name and Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil.

How many people are named Maura in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 33,898 people with the first name Maura, which ranks it number 753 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1960s.

Is Maura a boy's or a girl's name?

Maura is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 33,683 women and 215 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Maura?

Maura is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Maura most common?

Proportionally, in Minas Gerais: 0.034% of the state's population is named Maura (7,071 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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