Girls' name · since 1916
Maudella
Maudella has 60 recorded births since 1916 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1916 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 60
- total births
- 1916–1946
- years on record
- 1920s
- peak decade
- 48%
- born in that decade
Maudella is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 60 have been recorded since 1916.
Maudella has 60 recorded births among girls since 1916, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 1946.
- 60 total births
- 1916–1946 years on record
- 1920s peak decade
- 48% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Maudella's 60 recorded births place it above 54% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Maudella's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Maudella splits its recorded history at 1929: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1922 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1916 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Maudella popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–1946
- Peak year (1916)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 31 years of records
Maudella by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1920s was Maudella's strongest decade.
29 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Maudella births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 8
1910s
8 births
- 1920s
1920s
29 births
- 1930s
1930s
12 births
- 1940s 11
1940s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 29 births (48% of all-time use).
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- Maudella's usage has stayed within range of its 1920s decade-level peak (29 total births) through the 1940s (11) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–1946 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Maudella: Baby Name Since 1916 - 60 Births, Peak 1916." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/maudella. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maudella draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.