Maud
Maud reached its high-water mark in 1886 at number 74, and has been recorded 13,190 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 520 Mauds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Maud boys named Maud
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,190
- Estimated living today
- 520
- Median age today
- 74
- Peak year
- 1886
- Best rank
- 74th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 13,159 / 31
How old the living Mauds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,190 babies given the name since 1880, about 520 are alive — 4 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Old French Mahaut.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mauds
- Maud of Wales (1869–1938)British princess (1869-1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
- Maud Adams (born 1945)Swedish actress
- Maud Menten (1879–1960)Canadian physician and chemist
- Maud Gonne (1866–1953)Irish revolutionary and activist
- Maud of Savoy (1125–1158)Queen consort of Portugal
- Maud Lewis (1903–1970)Canadian artist
- Maud Watson (1864–1946)English tennis player
- Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893–1945)British princess; youngest child of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal
People named Maud with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Maud is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Maud is most concentrated in Mississippi (7.7×), Louisiana (5.2×), Kentucky (4.2×), Arkansas (3.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1886
The most popular girls’ names the year Maud peaked:
Maud elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Maud | 37,940 | 60th |
| Belgium girls | Maud | 2,271 | 80th |
| Norway girls | Maud | 493 | 159th |
| England and Wales girls | Maud | 204 | 2,058th |
| Ireland girls | Maud | 61 | 340th |
| Scotland girls | Maud | 3 | 790th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Maud: rank by region
In 2025, Maud was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Maud | 149 | 38 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Maud appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (81st), Province of East Flanders (109th), Province of West Flanders (160th), Province of Flemish Brabant (193rd) and Province of Antwerp (243rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Maud among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Maud | 12,125 | 13,042 |
| Finland girls | Maud | 84 | 120 |
| the Netherlands boys | Maud | 6 | 61 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Maud against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.