🔥Maude

English and French diminutive of Matilda, German

"battle-mighty"

Maude Origin and Meaning

The name Maude is a girl's name of German origin meaning "battle-mighty".

Maude, also spelled Maud, is a lacy, mauve-tinted name that was wildly popular a hundred years ago, but has been rarely heard in the past fifty. Some stylish parents are starting to choose it again, especially as a middle.

Maude's early popularity was influenced by the Tennyson poem that included the oft-quoted line, "Come into the garden, Maude." Then, in the 1970s, along came the sitcom Maude, featuring the vociferous and opinionated character Maude Finlay, putting a very different spin on the name. But enough decades have now passed for the name to have settled back into its soft, sweet pastel image.

Parents today are more likely to associate the name with young actress Maude Apatow, who rose to fame in HBO's Euphoria. She may be the catalyst needed to finally popularize her name again.

The Maud spelling has British royal associations via the daughter of Edward VII, who later became Queen of Norway; Maud Gonne was a famous Irish political activist.

Maude Rank in US Top 1000

# 990 in the US

Maude Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 459 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Maude

• 459 Nameberry 2025

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Famous People Named Maude

• Maude aka Matilda Holy Roman Empress consort of Henry V; claimant to the English throne
• Maude Apatow American actress; daughter of film director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann
• Maude Amber McAfee Maggart, American singer; sister of Fiona Apple
• Maude George American actress
• Maude Allen American actress
• Maude Eburne Canadian actress
• Maude Victoria Barlow Canadian activist
• Maude Turner Gordon American actress
• Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins American novelist
• (Ellen) Maude Carey first woman postmaster in the British Empire
• Maude Nugent American singer and composer
• Maude Gabrielle Harcheb French singer and TV personality
• (Agnes) Maude Royden English preacher and suffragist
• Maude Fay American operatic soprano
• Maude Dominica Mary Petre English nun, writer and critic
• Maude Mary (Hawk) Fealy American silent film actress
• Maude Ewing Adams American actress; first person to play Peter Pan in America
• Lucy Maude (L.M.) Montgomery Canadian novelist

The name Maude in Pop Culture

• Maude Findlay main character on TV's "Maude"
• Maude Flanders character on TV's "The Simpsons"
• Maude Lebowski character in film "The Big Lebowski"
• Princess Maude character in The Pillars of the Earth series
• Maude Coleman character from Tracy Chevlair's "Falling Angels"
• Marjorie "Maude" Chardin main character in 1971 film "Harold & Maude"
• Maude Guillory character in 1984 film "Micki & Maude"
• Maude a character in TV’s BoJack Horseman