Maud
Maud is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 68th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1886478 births
- Best rank
- #68in 1883
- Since 1880
- 13,159people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,159 girls have been named Maud in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1886, with 478 births — 0.33% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 478 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1896, and the 1880s alone account for 32%. It has spent 53 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 11 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maud | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 4,201 | |
| 1890s | 3,285 | |
| 1900s | 1,836 | |
| 1910s | 1,629 | |
| 1920s | 1,240 | |
| 1930s | 442 | |
| 1940s | 205 | |
| 1950s | 134 | |
| 1960s | 73 | |
| 1970s | 35 | |
| 1980s | 17 | |
| 1990s | 16 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 22 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1886, its biggest year
Maud was the 74th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1886 were Mary, Anna, Emma, Elizabeth and Minnie. See all of 1886.
Names that rose and fell with Maud
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lulupeak 1886
- Maudepeak 1888
- Kittiepeak 1889
- Mertiepeak 1918
- Bellepeak 1915
- Dociapeak 1890
- Mintapeak 1921
- Lidapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.