girls:
13.1k births since 1880
#1358 (76th percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1881
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1880
#2288 (70th percentile)
The name Maud is the #2,288 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,179 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,358 (76.2% percentile) for all time with 13,148 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1881.
Maud has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys). Birth data for Maud is available in 105 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (105 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Maud has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maud reached its peak popularity in 1886, achieving the 72.7% percentile (ranked #72) with 3,109 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 3,734 births per million (ranked 70.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Maud reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #185) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1908.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maud".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Maud. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Maud is pronounced as mawd, which has 1 syllables.
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