# Maude (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maude/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | Maudie |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 45,887 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 133 / 45,754 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 153, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 11,837 |
| 2012 | 10 | 10,976 |
| 2013 | 17 | 7,273 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,939 |
| 2015 | 16 | 7,488 |
| 2016 | 17 | 7,118 |
| 2017 | 17 | 6,996 |
| 2018 | 25 | 5,274 |
| 2019 | 25 | 5,255 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,822 |
| 2021 | 18 | 6,590 |
| 2022 | 37 | 4,017 |
| 2023 | 32 | 4,421 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,733 |
| 2025 | 46 | 3,367 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1885 | 6 | 897 |
| 1888 | 10 | 682 |
| 1889 | 9 | 704 |
| 1890 | 8 | 793 |
| 1891 | 12 | 549 |
| 1892 | 5 | 1,194 |
| 1893 | 6 | 986 |
| 1894 | 13 | 585 |
| 1895 | 6 | 1,042 |
| 1900 | 5 | 1,433 |
| 1903 | 7 | 980 |
| 1915 | 5 | 4,184 |
| 1919 | 8 | 3,290 |
| 1920 | 5 | 4,721 |
| 1929 | 5 | 4,348 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 4,049 |
| 2012 | 6 | 3,681 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,541 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3,961 |
| 2022 | 13 | 2,058 |
| 2023 | 10 | 2,504 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2,253 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## People named Maude

- Maude Apatow, American actress (born 1997)
- Maude Adams, American actress (1872–1953)
- Maude Charron, Canadian weightlifter
- Maude Fealy, American actress (1883–1971)
- Maude Abbott, Canadian physician (1868–1940)
- Edith Maude Hull, British writer (1880–1947)
- Maude Turner Gordon, actress (1868-1940)
- Maude George, American actress (1888-1963)
- Maude Hirst, British actress
- Maude Barlow, Canadian writer and activist
- Maude Bonney, Australian aviator
- Maude Valérie White, French-born English composer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.