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Maud

Girls' name

Form of Matilda

Maud has been given to 13,190 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1886, with 478 recorded.

Babies named Maud, 2024

1 in 557,000

Maud over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maud: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Matilda

Germanic languages

What Maud means

Maud is a form of Matilda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Maud is used in English, French, Dutch and Swedish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɔd/, /mod/ and /ˈmɑu̯t/ for Maud.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Maud → Matilda → *Mahtihildiz. The family’s meaning is “strength + battle, fight”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements mahtiz and hildiz.

Origin, language, and formation

Maud is used in English, Dutch, Faroese, French and Swedish. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Maud comes through Old French Mahaut.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matilda and Mathilde.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Maud is pronounced /mɔd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13,159 girls were recorded with the name Maud between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 478 in 1886; its best national rank was #68 in 1883.

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Maud between 1881 and 1908. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1881; its best national rank was #835 in 1881.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maud?

Maud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maud sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maud was born before 1896 — so the typical Maud is around 129 today.

Median birth year
1896
About 129 years old
Biggest decade
1880s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.35%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
321
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1880s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (4,201).

Is Maud rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1886 (478)
Years since peak
139
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#68
1883

Spellings of Maud

Maud is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 87.5% against Maud's 0.28%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maud is used

Across 1910–2025, Maud was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 52,023 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 14,286
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 16,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 25,000
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 25,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 25,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maud around the world

Where Maud ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1974–2023
    #625
    in 2023
  • France
    1900–2025
    #976
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #159
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Maud

People whose public names include Maud, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Maud in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Maud. Linked forms have their own page here.

MaudeMaudie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Maud by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#68
1883
Peak year
1886
478 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
13,159
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#835
1881
Peak year
1881
6 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
1908
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maud

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Maud

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maud, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Maud

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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