How Many People Are Named Maud?
people named Maud are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 657,278 people in the US has this name
Based on 13,190 babies named Maud in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
483 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Usual medieval form of MATILDA. Though it became rare after the 14th century, it was revived and once more grew popular in the 19th century, perhaps due to Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem 'Maud' (1855).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Maud in English. Counting Maud and these spellings together, about 3,175 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Maud in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Maud alive today is about 68 years old, and 74% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 59 and 85 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Maud first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1886, to 483 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Maud never made the top 10 girls' names. Its best rank was #68, in 1883, and it was in the top 100 for 11 years, 1880 to 1890.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #68 (1883) |
| Years in the top 100 | 11 (1880 to 1890) |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #74 in the 1880s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Maud alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Maud were born in Mississippi than in any other state: about 15 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Maud was given 4.8 times as often in Mississippi, 4.5 times in Louisiana and 2.8 times in Kentucky.
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