Maude - Meaning of Maude

What does Maude mean?

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[ 1 syll. mau-de, ma-ude ] The baby girl name Maude is pronounced as MAOD (English) †. Maude is used mostly in English and it is of Germanic origin. Maude is a derivative of the English, Italian, Portuguese, and Scandinavian name Matilda.

A form of the name is the English spelling variant Maud.

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Maude is a rare baby girl name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1901, 0.322% of baby girls were named Maude. It had a ranking of #77 then. The baby name has steeply slipped in popularity since then, and is currently of irregular use. In 2018, out of the family of girl names directly related to Maude, Matilda was the most popular. The name Maude has been mainly given to baby girls, though it has also been used as a boy name in the last century. There were 52 times more baby girls than boys who were named Maude in 1903.

Baby names that sound like Maude include Maud (English), Maat, Maath, Maathe, Mad (English), Mahmoude, Mahmude, Maite (Basque and Spanish), Mat (English), Matte, Mayte, Mead, Meade, Med, Medow, Medowe, Meit, Mete, Mide (Irish), and Miett.

† Pronunciation for Maude: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AO as in "ought (AO.T)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)"