Maud

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maud: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maud: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #161, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
97times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#161highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2411
1998	#3848
1999	#2770
2000	#2746
2001	#1870
2002	#4137
2003	#1843
2004	#2278
2005	#2247
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2008	#4524
2009	#2759
2010	#2589
2011	#3185
2012	#3681
2013	#2649
2014	#2058
2015	#4736
2016	#3609
2017	#2502
2018	#2674
2019	#4001
2020	#3117
2021	#2499
2022	#3970
2023	#3598
2024	#2574

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 52 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #217 among girls in Norway, #790 among girls in Scotland, #2574 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #288 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #161 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #161 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Maud appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 52 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 493 births with the name.

Maud across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maud's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#288 (1945)	#161 (2025)	#161 (2025)	52 of 81	493 (1945–2025)	31 (2025)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#340 (1974)	#340 (1974)	#625 (2023)	15 of 50	61 (1974–2023)	7 (1974)
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#1843 (2003)	#2574 (2024)	29 of 29	199 (1996–2024)	13 (2014)

Maud by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maud in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	15	2 of 10	8
1950s	29	5 of 10	6
1960s	49	8 of 10	6
1970s	9	2 of 10	5
1980s	23	4 of 10	6
1990s	77	9 of 10	9
2000s	52	6 of 10	9
2010s	112	10 of 10	11
2020sbusiest	127	6 of 10	21

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Maud appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #161 in Norway in 2025.

Maud's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2574	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2247	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2770	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#161	31	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#217	20	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#285	14	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#208	20	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#219	19	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#200	23	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#289	14	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#321	13	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#276	18	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#435	8	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#397	10	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#326	14	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#429	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#429	9	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#478	7	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#412	10	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#444	9	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#570	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#573	5	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#421	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#268	16	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#402	9	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#257	17	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#474	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#442	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#493	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#391	10	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#529	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#424	9	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#561	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#531	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#494	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#636	5	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#661	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#571	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#617	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#534	5	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#571	4	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#513	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#443	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#356	9	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#407	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#434	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#371	7	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#447	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#394	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#361	7	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#408	5	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#347	6	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#359	6	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#288	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#621	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#705	4	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#490	5	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#576	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#515	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	4	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	7	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 59 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #161, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1974, and 79 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Matyas · #1786, 17y
Matylda · #359, 22y
Maude · #542, 26y
Maura · #136, 58y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Serena · #159, 61y
Agata · #166, 56y
Selina · #166, 58y
Rhona · #175, 59y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Gjertrud · #162, 55y
Hilda · #160, 68y
Oddgeir · #160, 48y
Rannveig · #160, 58y

Maud was ranked #161 in Norway · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maud and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maud without appearing here.

Maud moved ahead of

Helene Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2502 and #5765.
Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3667 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4001 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #5581.
Kristy Compare
In 2013 they stood at #3681 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Maud

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #1240.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2247 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #5061 and #2137.
Selma Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1870 and #2023 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #1245.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Maud

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 while Anita went from #162 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 while Åse went from #25 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 while Aud went from #13 to #427.

Moved the same way as Maud

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 and Ada from #229 to #18.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 and Alma from #293 to #8.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 and Elise from #223 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maud went from #288 to #161 and Ella from #137 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #161 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maud

Maud at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maud across 3 official records

Maud by decade in Norway · Girls

Maud appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Maud and the names beside it

Maud moved ahead of

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Maud at a glance

Maud across 3 official records

Maud by decade in Norway · Girls

Maud appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Maud

Maud and the names beside it

Maud moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maud

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