Maude
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maude is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In English, recorded as from a female personal name (see Mould). MacLysaght notes that this name was taken to County Kilkenny in the 17th century, and also occurs among Irish-speaking people in County Connemara, Ireland.
- CACanada≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 48K
- USUnited States1 in 102K
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)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Norman form of Matilda from Flemish Mahault; used in Ireland for Maeve.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maude is read(measured from records)
Maude 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.
- English72%
from a female personal name (see Mould). MacLysaght notes that this name was taken to County Kilkenny in the 17th century, and also occurs among Irish-speaking people in County Connemara, Ireland.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French17%
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maude 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 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 5.4K | — | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Maude | 162 |
| US United States | 3,252 | 1 in 102K | 3.2K | Maude | 273 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Maude | 125 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 192K | listed | Maude | 24 |
| BE Belgium | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 5 | Maude | 39 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 10 | — | 26 |
| IS Iceland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Maude | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the wgnd-ng-names register; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maude is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, Norman form of Matilda from Flemish Mahault; used in Ireland for Maeve.
as a nameIrish first names
In Irish, An aristocratic English family, a branch of which settled in Co. Kilkenny in the seventeenth century. This name is also found among the Irish speaking people of Connemara
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
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. 1869GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess (1869-1938), Queen consort of Norway from 1905 to 1938
- Maude Adamsb. 1872USAmerican actress (1872–1953)
- Maud Mentenb. 1879CAnot in their usual nameCanadian physician and chemist (1879–1960)
- Princess Maud, Countess of Southeskb. 1893GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess; youngest child of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, and Louise, Princess Royal (1893–1945)
- 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. 1945SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress
- Alice Krigeb. 1954ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African actress
- Maude Apatowb. 1997USAmerican actress (born 1997)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 59 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.4K | #1,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #5,320 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 46 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 24 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #5,320 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1926 | 10 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1995 | 5 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2021 | 5 | #1,392 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2024 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Maude come from?
- Norman form of Matilda from Flemish Mahault; used in Ireland for Maeve. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Maude a male or female name?
- Maude 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 Maude mean?
- In English, from a female personal name (see Mould). MacLysaght notes that this name was taken to County Kilkenny in the 17th century, and also occurs among Irish-speaking people in County Connemara, Ireland.
- What are other forms of the name Maude?
- 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.
- In which country does Maude have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Maude in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Maude?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,252 people named Maude in 2020, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maudeThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maude”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.