girls:
45.7k births since 1880
#619 (89th percentile)
boys:
133 births since 1881
#4453 (3rd percentile)
overall:
45.8k births since 1880
#1137 (85th percentile)
The name Maude is the #1,137 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 45,800 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 85.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 85.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #619 (89.2% percentile) for all time with 45,667 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,453 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 133 births since 1881.
Maude has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys).
The name Maude has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Maude reached its peak popularity in 1882, achieving the 91.6% percentile (ranked #20) with 9,413 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 9,413 births per million (ranked 91.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Maude ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 0.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maude reached its peak popularity in 1894, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #210) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 110 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maude".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Maude. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Maude is pronounced as mawd, which has 1 syllables.
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