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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Mauri.
Proper noun
Mauri (plural Mauris)
- A surname from Italian.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Mauri is the 33241th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 688 individuals. Mauri is most common among White (60.76%) and Hispanic/Latino (33.87%) individuals.
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Finnish
Etymology
From the Latin saints' names Mauritius and, less often, Maurus.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mauri
- a male given name, equivalent to English Maurice
- 1930-1945, published posthumously 1968, Ain'Elisabet Pennanen, Kaksi raukkaa, WSOY, page 429:
―Eikö teillä ole muuta ristimänimeä kuin Sulo, Laisa kysyi ärsytellen.
―On, Mauri.
―No, mutta käyttäkää sitä sitten! Sehän on kaunis nimi. Mauri Määttä ja sointuu.- ―Is Sulo the only name you were christened with, Laisa asked in a teasing way.
―No, there's also Mauri.
―Well, use that then! It's a pretty name. Mauri Määttä and it rhymes.
2006, Seppo Jokinen, Hiirileikki, Karisto, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 11–12:Mauri Arvi Maunukka, se oli hänen koko nimensä.
Mauri Maunukka. MAU MAU, MAU MAU.
( - - - ) Mauria ei ollut pantu edes alulle vielä silloin, ja kun hän sitten oli syntynyt monen odotuksentäyteisen vuoden jälkeen, hänet oli kastettu kotikylän mukaan Mauriksi. Isä ja äite olivat kertoneet asian sataan kertaan kaikille tutuille ja Maurinkylän naapureille ja vielä naureskelleetkin sen päälle. Arvistakin se oli ollut aluksi hauskaa, mutta sitten nauru oli muuttunut itkuksi. Eihän Mauri-nimessä mitään vikaa ollut, se oli kaunis ja komea, mutta sukunimeen ja kissanaamaan yhdistettynä se oli tehnyt hänen kouluvuosistaan helvetin.- Mauri Arvi Maunukka was his full name.
Mauri Maunukka. MAU MAU, MAU MAU.
( - - - ) Mauri wasn't even conceived back then, and he was finally born after many years of waiting, he has been named Mauri after his home village. His parents had then told this hundreds of times to everyone they knew and the neighbors at Maurinkylä and even laughed on top. Arvi too thought it was funny at first, but then then his laughter turned to crying. There was nothing wrong with the name Mauri, it was nice and all, but combined with his surname and cat-like face, it had made his school years a living hell.
- Alternative form: Make (diminutive)
Declension
Statistics
- Mauri is the 100th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 7,206 male individuals (and as a middle name to 1,815 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
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Italian
Etymology
Patronymic of Mauro.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mauri m or f by sense
- a surname
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Latin
Noun
Maurī
- inflection of Maurus:
- nominative/vocative plural
- genitive singular
References
- “Mauri”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Mauri in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.