Maude
Maude is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 41 births. Its best rank was 20th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 410.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 18881,396 births
- Best rank
- #20in 1882
- Since 1880
- 45,708people given the name
The story in the numbers
45,708 girls have been named Maude in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1888, with 1,396 births — 0.78% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 41 births in 2024, against 1,396 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1900, and the 1880s alone account for 25%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Maude | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11,454 | |
| 1890s | 11,304 | |
| 1900s | 7,142 | |
| 1910s | 6,713 | |
| 1920s | 4,536 | |
| 1930s | 1,810 | |
| 1940s | 1,062 | |
| 1950s | 647 | |
| 1960s | 302 | |
| 1970s | 145 | |
| 1980s | 109 | |
| 1990s | 95 | |
| 2000s | 86 | |
| 2010s | 158 | |
| 2020s | 145 |
In 1888, its biggest year
Maude was the 32nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1888 were Mary, Anna, Elizabeth, Emma and Margaret. See all of 1888.
Names that rose and fell with Maude
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dociapeak 1890
- Lulupeak 1886
- Kittiepeak 1889
- Maudpeak 1886
- Bellepeak 1915
- Mabellepeak 1893
- Mertiepeak 1918
- Mintapeak 1921
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.