Maude
About Maude
Maude, also spelled Maud, is a lacy, mauve-tinted name that was wildly popular a hundred years ago, but has been rarely heard in the past fifty. Some stylish parents are starting to choose it again, especially as a middle.
Maude's early popularity was influenced by the Tennyson poem that included the oft-quoted line, "Come into the garden, Maude." Then, in the 1970s, along came the sitcom Maude, featuring the vociferous and opinionated character Maude Finlay, putting a very different spin on the name. But enough decades have now passed for the name to have settled back into its soft, sweet pastel image.
Parents today are more likely to associate the name with young actress Maude Apatow, who rose to fame in HBO's Euphoria. She may be the catalyst needed to finally popularize her name again.
The Maud spelling has British royal associations via the daughter of Edward VII, who later became Queen of Norway; Maud Gonne was a famous Irish political activist.
As of October 2026, Maude ranked #3367 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #20 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #408.
Editor's take: The name Maude is a girl's name of German origin meaning "battle-mighty".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | #4,014 | 37 | 22.6 |
| 2023 | #4,418 | 32 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | #3,724 | 41 | 25.3 |
| 2025 | #3,367 | 46 | 28.6 |
World rankings
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Famous Maudes
- Maude aka Matilda
Holy Roman Empress consort of Henry V; claimant to the English throne
- Maude Apatow
American actress; daughter of film director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann
- Maude Amber McAfee
Maggart, American singer; sister of Fiona Apple
- Maude George
American actress
- Maude Allen
American actress
- Maude Eburne
Canadian actress
- Maude Victoria Barlow
Canadian activist
- Maude Turner Gordon
American actress
- Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins
American novelist
- (Ellen) Maude Carey
first woman postmaster in the British Empire
- Maude Nugent
American singer and composer
- Maude Gabrielle Harcheb
French singer and TV personality
- (Agnes) Maude Royden
English preacher and suffragist
- Maude Fay
American operatic soprano
- Maude Dominica Mary Petre
English nun, writer and critic
- Maude Mary (Hawk) Fealy
American silent film actress
- Maude Ewing Adams
American actress; first person to play Peter Pan in America
- Lucy Maude (L.M.) Montgomery
Canadian novelist
Maude in pop culture
- Maude Findlay
main character on TV's "Maude"
- Maude Flanders
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Maude Lebowski
character in film "The Big Lebowski"
- Princess Maude
character in The Pillars of the Earth series
- Maude Coleman
character from Tracy Chevlair's "Falling Angels"
- Marjorie "Maude" Chardin
main character in 1971 film "Harold & Maude"
- Maude Guillory
character in 1984 film "Micki & Maude"
- Maude
a character in TV’s BoJack Horseman
- Maude Ivory Baird
character in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes