Maude

Where Maude comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Maude.

  • French
  • Vowel-ended
Maude through the years
  1. 1872
    Maude Adams born
    American actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #21 among girls, with 859 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #20
    1,089 babies named Maude, its best rank.
  4. 1908
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #137.
  5. 1997
    Maude Apatow born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French; a variant of Maud. This is the most common spelling in English-speaking regions.
Namesakes
  • Maude Apatow · American actress, born 1997
  • Maude Adams · American actress, 1872–1953
  • Maude Charron · Canadian weightlifter, born 1993
  • Maude Fealy · American actress, 1883–1971
  • Maude Abbott · Canadian physician, 1868–1940

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.