Maud is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Maud has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Maud. That means that a girl named Maud is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maud.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Maud are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Maud in 24 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Maud live in Mississippi – here, one in 8,996 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 71,113 will turn around if you call her first name Maud.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Maud is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Maud and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maud, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Unicorn
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maud
Maud
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
U
D
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
U
D
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maud sounds like this:
