Maudella
Maudella was last recorded in 1946, when 5 babies were given it; 60 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maudella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maudella?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,432, in 1946; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1916, the peak
Maudella peaked in 1916, when 8 girls were given it, #3,453 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 | #5,432 | 3.2 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,184 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,762 | 4.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,917 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,042 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,344 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,890 | 6.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,772 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,518 | 4.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,453 | 7.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maudella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maudella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maudella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maudella, and how old are they?
An estimated 8 Americans named Maudella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maudella
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Vernelle | 1,250 |
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.