Mauro
From the Latin Maurus, the Roman word for a Moor: someone dark-skinned, from across the Mediterranean. Fewer than 300 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Mauro Pronunciation
Mauro is pronounced mah-OO-ro (/maˈurɔ/).
What Mauro means
Where Mauro comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mauro begins in Latin, in the word Maurus, which named a Moor, a person dark-skinned or born in Roman Mauretania across the Mediterranean. Italy and Spain kept the name in ordinary use, so a Mauro today still answers to something Rome once said about complexion and origin.
The name gained a saint early. Maurus was a sixth-century monk, remembered as the first disciple of Saint Benedict, and his feast on 15 January gave generations of boys their name-day. Through him a plain adjective for "dark" became a Christian given name.
In a Polish school register Mauro reads as a visitor from the south, rare and clearly Italian. It has no Polish diminutive of its own, no softened home form. What it keeps instead is its meaning: ciemny, śniady, the old sense of a Moor.
How many people are named Mauro
1 in 74899 men in Poland is named Mauro. 285 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1799 among male names.
Mauro's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Mauro as a middle name
Mauro is a first name for 285 men in Poland and a middle name for another 34, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1418th, between Khanh (34) and Mojżesz (34).
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#1416 János34
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#1417 Khanh34
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#1418 Mauro34
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#1419 Mojżesz34
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#1420 Nicolaas34