Maud
Maud was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 13,190 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maud mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maud is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
From Old French Mahaut. Doublet of Matilda.
/mɔd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maud?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,643, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
483 babies in 1886, the peak
Maud peaked in 1886, when 483 babies were given it (478 girls, #74 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,643 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,696 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,294 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,527 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,876 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,864 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,126 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,000 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,868 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (107)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | #14,544 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,090 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,627 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,868 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,334 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,284 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,314 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,292 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,111 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,295 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,080 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,264 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,567 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,325 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,311 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,257 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,859 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,721 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,955 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,622 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,094 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 45 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,191 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 43 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 49 | #994 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 65 | #866 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 44 | #1,068 | 0.04 |
| 1930 | 70 | #858 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 80 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 79 | #813 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 110 | #695 | 0.09 |
| 1926 | 118 | #667 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 128 | #650 | 0.11 |
| 1924 | 133 | #651 | 0.11 |
| 1923 | 157 | #573 | 0.13 |
| 1922 | 145 | #597 | 0.12 |
| 1921 | 131 | #648 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 159 | #569 | 0.13 |
| 1919 | 162 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1918 | 182 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1917 | 168 | #514 | 0.16 |
| 1916 | 165 | #509 | 0.16 |
| 1915 | 182 | #458 | 0.18 |
| 1914 | 175 | #399 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 168 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1912 | 149 | #377 | 0.27 |
| 1911 | 135 | #342 | 0.32 |
| 1910 | 143 | #320 | 0.36 |
| 1909 | 122 | #330 | 0.35 |
| 1908 | 138 | #303 | 0.41 |
| 1907 | 143 | #292 | 0.45 |
| 1906 | 181 | #240 | 0.61 |
| 1905 | 192 | #224 | 0.66 |
| 1904 | 159 | #249 | 0.58 |
| 1903 | 176 | #224 | 0.67 |
| 1902 | 218 | #198 | 0.83 |
| 1901 | 221 | #186 | 0.92 |
| 1900 | 286 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 1899 | 244 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 1898 | 262 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1897 | 270 | #165 | 1.2 |
| 1896 | 298 | #157 | 1.3 |
| 1895 | 305 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 1894 | 333 | #129 | 1.5 |
| 1893 | 366 | #119 | 1.7 |
| 1892 | 402 | #112 | 1.9 |
| 1891 | 366 | #108 | 2.0 |
| 1890 | 439 | #97 | 2.3 |
| 1889 | 432 | #92 | 2.4 |
| 1888 | 469 | #86 | 2.6 |
| 1887 | 402 | #83 | 2.8 |
| 1886 | 478 | #74 | 3.3 |
| 1885 | 429 | #75 | 3.2 |
| 1884 | 461 | #72 | 3.6 |
| 1883 | 425 | #68 | 3.8 |
| 1882 | 432 | #69 | 4.0 |
| 1881 | 328 | #71 | 3.6 |
| 1880 | 345 | #70 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maud has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 107 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maud, and how old are they?
An estimated 498 Americans named Maud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (4% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 58 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,282 people named Maud (1,262 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 716 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Maud born?
The states with the most babies named Maud are Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Louisiana are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 224 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 214 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 205 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Georgia | 171 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Kentucky | 161 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 158 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 148 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Tennessee | 129 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 115 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 106 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Maud is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maud is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Maud with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 59,077 babies since 1880, Maud is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Maud (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maud
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maud and names like it
- Compare Maud and MaudeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sMaud peaked in 1886.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maud since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Maud: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1886The year the most babies were named Maud.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Maud alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.