Maude is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Maude in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Maude in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Maude by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Maude ranks at #5,552. That means there are 5,551 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maude.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Maude is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Maude for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Maude is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Maude is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #20 Maude has never been more popular than back in 1882.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maude was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 37 babies were named Maude in the USA in 2022, ranking it #3,505 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2007, when it was only ranked #15,814 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 5 girls were named Maude.
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 five letters, the name Maude is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Maude 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 Maude, you can simply say:
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Apple
Unicorn
Dinosaur
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Maude sounds like this:
