Maurine

Where Maurine comes from

Maurine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1890
    First appearance
    #1,210 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1896
    Maurine Dallas Watkins born
    American journalist
  3. 1907
    Maurine Neuberger born
    US Senator from Oregon
  4. 1913
    Peak, #329
    213 babies named Maurine — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #638.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Maurine Neuberger · US Senator from Oregon, 1907–2000
  • Maurine Dallas Watkins · American journalist, 1896–1969
  • Maurine Dornelles Gonçalves · Brazilian association football player, born 1986
  • Maurine Karagianis · Canadian politician, born 1950
  • Maurine Ricour · Belgian athlete, born 1991

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.