Fewer than five US girls were named Maud in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #68, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 478, in 1886. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,312 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maud in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 345 babies. In all, 13,190 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1880s, with 4,222 babies named Maud.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22 US girls were named Maud; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 6.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Maude (45,887 babies since 1880) and Maudie (11,851 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahad, Mahid and Mahed are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Middy.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.