Maud
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Medieval French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht ‘strength’ + hild ‘battle’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mod/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.6K
- SESweden1 in 976
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 354 (measured from records)
- 1 in 976 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Medieval French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht ‘strength’ + hild ‘battle’
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maud is read(measured from records)
Maud is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French68%
Medieval French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht ‘strength’ + hild ‘battle’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
French form of Matilda; Germ. 'strength in battle'.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
a female given name, variant of Mathilde
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Variante de Mathilde; origine germanique, « force au combat ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English20%
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
different form of Moult.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Maud, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maud counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #327 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 38K | Maud | 354 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10,457 | 1 in 976 | 10K | Maud | 30 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Maud | 10 |
| BE Belgium | #655 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 42 | Maud | 85 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Maud | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 7 | Maud | 46 |
| NO Norway | — | 566 | 1 in 9.7K | 1.7K | — | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Princess Alice of the United Kingdomb. 1843GBnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
- Maud of Walesb. 1869GBBritish princess (1869-1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
- Maud Mentenb. 1879CACanadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
- Princess Maud, Countess of Southeskb. 1893GBBritish princess; youngest child of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal (1893–1945)
- Maud Lewisb. 1903CACanadian artist (1903–1970)
- Margaret Tyzackb. 1931GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (1931–2011)
- Princess Astrid, Mrs. Fernerb. 1932NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian princess; elder sister of King Harald V of Norway
- Maud Adamsb. 1945SESwedish actress
- Alice Krigeb. 1954ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African actress
- Lily Aldridgeb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 38K | #701 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10K | #387 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 7K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.7K | #1,218 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 566 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 42 | #232 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Maud a male or female name?
- Maud is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Maud mean, and where does it come from?
- Medieval French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht ‘strength’ + hild ‘battle’ Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Maud?
- In the etymology graph, Matilde, Mathilde and Matilda are forms of the same name in other languages; Mattie, Tillie and Maudie are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Maud?
- A machine transcription gives /mod/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Maud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Maud in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maud.
- Where is Maud most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maud is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 976 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maud?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10,457 people named Maud, about 1 in 976 residents.
- How common is Maud compared with other names?
- In France, Maud is the 327th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Maud?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maudThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maud” — the 327th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.