Maude
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
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.
Maude is also given to boys.
Pronounced MAWD.
As of October 2026, Maude ranked #3367 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #20 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #442.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · girls | Births · girls | US rank · boys | Births · boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #4,418 | 32 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #3,724 | 41 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #3,367 | 46 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Maude for girls
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Famous Maudes
- Maude aka MatildaGirl
Holy Roman Empress consort of Henry V; claimant to the English throne
- Maude ApatowGirl
American actress; daughter of film director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann
- Maude Amber McAfeeGirl
Maggart, American singer; sister of Fiona Apple
- Maude GeorgeGirl
American actress
- Maude AllenGirl
American actress
- Maude EburneGirl
Canadian actress
- Maude Victoria BarlowGirl
Canadian activist
- Maude Turner GordonGirl
American actress
- Maude Phelps McVeigh HutchinsGirl
American novelist
- (Ellen) Maude CareyGirl
first woman postmaster in the British Empire
- Maude NugentGirl
American singer and composer
- Maude Gabrielle HarchebGirl
French singer and TV personality
- (Agnes) Maude RoydenGirl
English preacher and suffragist
- Maude FayGirl
American operatic soprano
- Maude Dominica Mary PetreGirl
English nun, writer and critic
- Maude Mary (Hawk) FealyGirl
American silent film actress
- Maude Ewing AdamsGirl
American actress; first person to play Peter Pan in America
- Lucy Maude (L.M.) MontgomeryGirl
Canadian novelist
Maude in pop culture
- Maude FindlayGirl
main character on TV's "Maude"
- Maude FlandersGirl
character on TV's "The Simpsons"
- Maude LebowskiGirl
character in film "The Big Lebowski"
- Princess MaudeGirl
character in The Pillars of the Earth series
- Maude ColemanGirl
character from Tracy Chevlair's "Falling Angels"
- Marjorie "Maude" ChardinGirl
main character in 1971 film "Harold & Maude"
- Maude GuilloryGirl
character in 1984 film "Micki & Maude"
- MaudeGirl
a character in TV’s BoJack Horseman
- Maude Ivory BairdGirl
character in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes